Bianca Harkless
Editor-In-Chief
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer was a staple of the early 2000’s whether you like it or not. With countless people going as far as naming their children Isabella and Jacob, it is no wonder people see it as cringy and something that we should leave behind. Stephanie Meyer’s decided that it was time to pull everyone back into their ‘I want to be a vampire’ phase by putting out the newest book in the Twilight series, Midnight Sun.
Midnight Sun is Twilight just through the main love interest, Edward’s, eyes. I assume that everyone reading this has at least a basic knowledge of the original book, so I will not be talking about the themes or plot because they are the same for both books. Honestly, everything was just about the same. So I will be reviewing the book rather than dissecting it for everyone.
For starters, Midnight Sun should have been about 200 pages shorter. While I enjoyed getting the background of why Edward thought that it was okay for him to sneak into a 17 year old girl’s room and watch her while she slept, which still does not make it okay, there were too many inner monologues for Edward that kind of derailed everything. There were too many points where I would forget what was even going on with the main plot because Edward was going on about how he was ruining Bella and that he was too dark for her.
There is also one too many references to the Hades and Persephone Greek myth. For those who are unaware about what that whole thing is about, please enjoy this very watered down version of the myth. Hades kidnaps Persephone and takes her back to the underworld. When Persephone’s mother finds out, she is understandably mad, and demands Zeus make Hades give her back her daughter. When she gets there, it is a little too late and Perphone already had 6 pomegranate seeds, making her be in the Underworld for 6 months of the year. Although it is not as bad as it seems because Phersophone loves Hades and did it so they could be together. Edward lives in a constant place where he is Hades and Bella is Persephone, which gets so annoying after a while.
When Edward is not worried about making everyone around him know just how big, bad, and scary he is, he is a pretty well thought out character. He has an actual personality that does not revolve around him loving Bella. He cares about his family and wants to do what is best for them, even if that includes going to Denali, Alaska in order to not expose the family.
Another flaw that I found in the book that I did not get from reading the others was just how much older Edward is than Bella. While he might be physically 17, he has been alive since 1901 and, therefore, acts differently than a teenager from this time. He often refers to Bella as a teen or child and it made me slightly uncomfortable whenever it happened because I was constantly reminded that later in the series she had a baby with a man who is older than her father. It is a little weird.
Overall, I really enjoyed reading Midnight Sun because it is a different point of view from the story I hold dear to my heart. It adds another layer to all of the characters that I did not know I needed. Plus we got to read about Alice throwing herself down the stairs of a Phoenix hotel, which made just about everything better.
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