Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

39 reviews

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

idyllisera's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-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? It's complicated

2.5

I made it!!!!!!
I went into this expecting nothing of Edward and he was even worse.
the only thing going for him was that he knew he's an asshole.

plus points:
- Emmett and Charlie and Rosalie are the only sane people, I love them
- Jacob is NORMAL here
- Bella has A PERSONALITY (and she is kinda cool ngl)

minus points:
- Eddie is absolutely terrible, Jesus fucking Christ
- Stephanie Meyer's purity culture upbringing is strong with this one
- I had to roll my eyes SO. MANY. TIMES. 

all in all: I am so glad that I'm done. this was exhausting.

also: this fucking book has almost 900 pages. AND IT ONLY COVERS THE FIRST BOOK. HOW. I was so disappointed when I found out. I thought I could read the whole series from Eddie's perspective. I was ROBBED.

idk what to rate this. It has been somewhat entertaining, but it's also so bad. I guess I'm also a bit sentimental, because I did like the original series (I am aware they're also bad, but when I was 14 I liked it. sue me) so we're going with 2.5?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Toxic relationship

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

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

bashsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.25

Midnight Sun is not what I would call a great book, but it is a fascinating one. If you can get past all of Edward's self-loathing and inability to do anything right (which is extremely hard), there are a few interesting tidbits to mull over. I think one of my main gripes with the Twilight saga in general is that every now and then Meyer touches on something compelling and then zooms right past it for the angsty romance factors.

1. Edward's relationship to Rosalie is so strange and captivating. He loathes her, but he thinks about her the most out of all his family members. Obviously, Rosalie was Bella's foil in the main series, but I never gave much thought to how that impacted Edward's perspective of her.
2. The deeper depiction and explanations of Alice and Jasper's abilties were cool. 
3. I despise the way Edward's mind-reading is depicted. I think it falls into many of the pitfalls that make me dislike most mind-reading characters. The apathy, the loathing for what people think in the privacy of their own heads, the lack of any personal ethics, the fact that he is not impacted at all beyond annoyance... that's a little too flat and Christian for my mind-reading opinions. That said, there is a great moment where Edward uses Emmett and Jasper's minds as his rearview mirrors. This is the ONLY good thing Meyer wrote about Edward's mind-reading.

But those things aside, this book is a slog. Edward's angst is overwrought and hard to read. Add in the Cullens' holier-than-thou vibes and it's just. none of the fun that vampires usually are.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Blood, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Gore, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Cursing, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Rape, and Drug use

-Racism & cultural appropriation tags are more about how fucked up Meyer's portrayal of the Quileute Tribe than anything that happens in-book (though Edward is hostile toward them).

a_wren_that_reads's review

dark funny medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Death, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

cptnstphy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

Reading about how Jasper handled James absolutely delighted me. Not only are his talents much more complex and powerful than Bella had ever known (cloaking himself in “boredom” as a disguise until the final moment) (cool as fuck), he was just so necessary for Edward’s sanity as they drove to the ballet studio. The way he forced calm on Edward via gentle touch to the back of the neck felt so caring and brotherly to me. So special. Jasper’s my new favourite, so underrated. Really cool to hear Alice’s planning too, how she thinks ahead and rearranges everything perfectly in her mind and props before it takes place. I also loved hearing right from the source how Edward’s life changed and how he felt happiness for the first time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Toxic relationship, Torture, Stalking, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Confinement, Medical content, Abandonment, Car accident, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Alcoholism

Minor: Drug abuse, Rape, Vomit, Kidnapping, Addiction, and Cursing

snwalsh's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, and Toxic relationship

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

Much more interesting than twilight. Now I wish the whole series had been in Edward’s POV.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Gore, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death

l_e_lavalle's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

1.0

The worst book I've ever read. I have NEVER had such a hard time finishing a book, I seriously considered DNFing this book many times and if I would've done that it would've been my first DNFed book. It is DENSE and boring beyond belief.  I thought that this book might redeem Edward at least a little bit BUT IT DID THE OPPOSITE 💀! Before this book I thought that maybe Edward wasn't a pedophile and it was just grossly bad writing but I STAND CORRECTED. There is no doubt in my mind now that Edward is a creepy old man who lusts for teenage girls.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Toxic relationship