Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

39 reviews

startjpw23's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This book is a Twilight retelling from Edward's perspective. It is told in first person. Edward is a vampire who is part of a vampire family who get their sustenance from animal blood instead of human blood. They are not a family by blood, but by their shared desire to not harm humans. To pass as human, Edward and his sisters and brothers attend a local high school. Early in the book, Bella, a teen girl, moves into town (Forks, Washington) to stay with her father who is the local sheriff. Bella starts as a student at the high school that Edward and his siblings also attend. When Bella joins a class that Edward is in, Edward has a strong reaction to the aroma of Bella's blood. It triggers an intense hunger reflex in him. The story goes on from there. I read and loved the Twilight books and movies when they came out. I recognized that they weren't the most well written books. Despite this, I found them very entertaining. I enjoyed the first half of Midnight Sun fairly well. Then Edward took Bella to a field in the wilderness to show her an aspect of vampires. This part of the story almost put me to sleep. I mean this literally. I had trouble keeping my eyes open. There was so much poorly written dialog. And the dialog kept on going and going. I had difficulty getting through the rest of the book. When Edward and Bella weren't endlessly talking in cringey dialog, we read what Edward was thinking. What he was thinking a lot of the time is what an awful being he was. I can't recall ever reading a character who was as self-loathing as Edward. There is actually a decent story in this book. But there is not 662 pages (the length of the book) of story. The premise of a different type vampires is clever. I liked the characters and their variety, both the vampires and the humans in Edwards and Bella's orbit. The plot is decent. A lot of the dialog and Edwards inner monologue should have been cut out. The other issue is that most people who read this book have previously read Twilight. I knew generally what was going to happen. I can only recommend this book to people who read Twilight recently and liked it. They would be okay with the poor writing. And to people who know nothing of Twilight. There would be a lot of thrills for the second group. They wouldn't know what was going to happen. Perhaps they could overlook the poor writing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Stalking, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Gore

stindex's review against another edition

dark

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Stalking, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Confinement, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Animal cruelty

thecandiegirl's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Stalking, Medical content, Blood, Violence, and Car accident

Minor: Gaslighting and Murder

sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Moderate: Gaslighting, Murder, Blood, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual harassment, Death, Stalking, Car accident, and Bullying

boyname's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

lizziaha's review against another edition

1.75

This book is great for a laugh, if you read it with the right attitude (that attitude being making fun of hundred year old loser edward cullen). This is truly psychopathic shit. Not only do we get a detailed recap of all the psychopathic behavior from the original books, we also get insight into Edward’s misogynistic and murderous thoughts. Like bro spent half of his time planning murders and the other half barely restraining himself from committing them. Also this book just solidified for me the fact that edward would’ve never fallen for Bella if he could hear her thoughts. Her internal monologue is everything he despises about anyone else’s thoughts. I also feel like it can’t be stressed enough that he literally stalks her!!!!! He breaks into her room while she’s sleeping and justifies it by killing a spider??? my guy get it together. And while we’re here, i just want to say that i have a hate-based parasocial relationship with stephenie meyer for how dirty she did rosalie. i will never forgive the misogyny that rosalie has been built around. when she could’ve been such an incredible character!!! this book is unhinged in the worst way imaginable. (emmett sweetheart this has nothing to do with you, you’re lovely) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Animal death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Addiction, and Death of parent

bethancy's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Purely here for the nostalgia. I did enjoy it but my god what a slog!!! Edward is so whiny. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

ecravens's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Murder, Grief, Blood, Body horror, Death, Violence, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

sav_22's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I actually had so much fun with this lol. I found it loads more entertaining than the actual original novels. I doubt this was the intention of Meyers, but this made Edward even more deranged, weird, creepy, which as a result makes him actually more interesting than he ever was before. It’s very fun, especially if you don’t take it seriously and are coming from a place of love-hate for the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Bullying, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Medical content

brandie_abbie19's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Car accident, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Violence, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent