A review by monicalaurette
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I am a Twilight Fan. I read these books while I was younger, related to Bella in my struggle with my own depression, and have met some wonderful people and friends from these books and the world of the Cullens and Swans. I will binge the movies with my awesome friend Emmy and just laugh at it. This world holds many good memories for me.

That being said, I took this book with a grain of salt. And with that grain of salt I can say...I didn’t love this book like I hoped I would.

Being inside Edwards head was...hard. To say the least. After a few pages it got repetitive and annoying to have him constantly talking about himself and how hard it was to be him and his soul and blocking out the ‘boring human voices’. At times he just felt pretentious to me.

Of course, there are those few scenes that I loved from both sides of the story. The van accident and Edward saving Bella, the first time in the meadow together, and (my personal favorite) THE BASEBALL SCENE *begin Supermassive Black Hole*.

I enjoyed being back in the world of Forks and seeing characters that I liked, and was reacquainted with characters that I forgot about (probably because they weren’t mentioned in the movies which I watched more than read the books). But also reading this I noticed how much I really wish there was more diversity in Meyer’s books. I know why there’s not, but I can’t help but think how much more I’d like the story if there were.

I give Midnight Sun 3.75 stars because I have a strong sentimental pull to this story, but I have grown up from the last time I read any Twilight content and I just didn’t enjoy being in Edward’s head and following his thoughts. Put me in Rosalie’s head next PLEASE. Or that himbo Emmett.

One other character that I wish I knew more of is Alice. Both her story and how any of us are truly supposed to believe that Jasper is her only romantic love, and that she’s only into men. Because believe me when I say she is coded as into women. No one can convince me otherwise.

*just a small postscript of my review. I have donated to the Quileute tribe’s move to higher ground and I will recommend those who can donate to look into their mission and possibly donate yourself to help save their culture and teachings for the future generations!