When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella’s side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward’s version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun.
The yay:
- The writing style is nice to read
- Jasper! Alice! Emmett! Reading the thoughts and learning to understand all the cool secondary characters! Their backstory!
- Learning a bit more about Edward makes him slightly less annoying overall
- That one paragraph about how vampires don’t pee
The bleh:
- Edward keeps whining about how he’d like to eat his girlfriend but can’t but would like to but won’t
- Edward treats Bella like a 5 year old and that was problematic enough when seen through her eyes
- Bella went from « clumsy » to « can’t walk in a straight line without falling down » and it fully crosses the line of plausibility. I mean at this point just explain that she’s disabled and make it a part of the story because I don’t find it endearing, I’m just worried for her.
- Obviously, we know the story already, so there’s a lot that feels repetitive (but interestingly, not that much considering that, well, we know the story already).
I want to insist on the fact that it’s really, REALLY LONG and incredibly slow-paced. That’s not a bad thing in itself, but y’all need to be aware before reading the book, I think.
Overall I do not regret buying & reading it and I’m having a good time, but I probably wouldn’t re-read it just for fun, unlike the original series.