Hoo boy, Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer is a doozy that is for sure. I have read all of Twilight and Life After Death plus the short novellas. All I can say is the world gets better and better while the characters seem to get worse. Or more accurately I start to see a lot of Stephanie Meyer as I read the world of Twilight and none has been more glaringly obvious than in Midnight Sun. This is why I love it and I loathe it at the same time because it was fascinating more about the characters and I have a smidge more respect for Edward (I had none in Twilight). On the other hand, the religion felt a little forced like wow Edward way to assume that Bella is religious (oh wait never mind that was just the author). Seriously, I dare you to read it and knowing that she is religious (hence the whole no sex before marriage, pure body crap) and let's just say she couldn't quite hide her racism with the whole vampires are pale corpses (clearly some of the vampires did not get the memo). However, that is not the only inconsistency in this book, if I am reading it right then that means Edward spent as many years drinking human blood as he did being a human. Don't ask me the numbers kept being changed to the point I gave up trying to understand how many years he was a vampire. All I can say is Edward why did it take you seventeen years to realize you were unsatisfied with human blood and wanted to go back to animal blood? What on earth is wrong with you?
Midnight Sun was both painful and entertaining to read because we get to be more into characters heads and let me tell you it becomes obvious how similar the characters are. I also feel bad for Tara because I do not remember her in Twilight and I am positive she was only a plot point to be all look how kind and good Bella is 😒. It was nauseating how many times you get it pointed out to you how good and kind Bella is like (excuse my language here, but) bitch please she does absolutely nothing. Bella is useless and this book only proves it, but somehow all the boys are bloody golden retrievers around her and all the women are catty bitches. I thought this book was supposed to show why Edward was in love with Bella (because I sure as hell cannot figure it out) instead, it starts comparing Bella to Persephone and I was like how dare you bring Persephone's name down to this nobody's level? You insult me with this. Seriously, Bella gets compared to Persephone as many times as you can get told she is good and kind. Why did I originally like Bella in Twilight I have questions (mostly about the state of my 13-year-old mind at the time. Granted I am questioning the state of my 27-year-old mind as well because as much as I hated this book goddamnit I loved it as well.)
Edward is psychotic but at least he can admit it, which is why I have respect for him because admitting the problem is half the battle. I howled with laughter when I found out the reason why he started watching her sleep was (are you ready for it) a meteorite. He was worried that with her bad luck a meteorite would fall and crush her so he had to save her from the imaginary meteorite 🤣.
No matter how many different Twilight books get written I will always love Alice and Jasper and I thought they would be in this book more than they were. I need more Alice and Jasper in my life like I swear they could murder everyone in the world and I will still love them. They made the book for me and I would gladly read any book from their POV.
I do not know how to articulate this dark and bizarre book, but all I can say is read at your own risk because it is a rabbit hole.
Date Started: April 27, 2022
Date finished: May 8, 2022.
Number of pages: 658
Stars: 3.75 (I waffled between 3.5 and 4 constantly so I decided to split the difference).
💧: 7.5
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