Hades himself, coveting springtime, stealing it, condemning it to endless night. I honestly thought this day would never come and as soon as I saw the book was available, I preordered the hardback for my collection and the audiobook.
Jake Abel did a fantastic job voicing Edward. Absolutely loved it. Yes, this is a Twilight retelling, but this is much longer than Twilight and so much was expanded on. Plus just knowing Edward's side of things and what he was really thinking was truly a treat! I also have to say, I think Stephenie Meyer's writing has only gotten stronger with time. View all 32 comments.
Holy shit snacks!! I love it so much! It did not happen often, but every now and then I would be struck by the obliviousness of the humans around us. We were all so accustomed to it, we always expected it, but occasionally it seemed more glaring than usua Omg! We were all so accustomed to it, we always expected it, but occasionally it seemed more glaring than usual. None of them noticed us here, lounging at the battered cafeteria table, though an ambush of tigers sprawled in our places would be less lethal than we were.
All they saw were five odd-looking people, close enough to human to pass. It was hard to imagine surviving with senses so incredibly dull. I love how Edward talks about reading his families minds and the different thoughts and struggles. I really wish Stephenie would do the whole series in his perspective! Bella Swan walked into the flow of heated air that blew toward me from the vent. Her scent hit me like a battering ram, like an exploding grenade.
There was no image violent enough to encompass the force of what happened to me at that moment. Instantly, I was transformed. I was a predator. She was my prey. There was nothing else in the whole world but that truth. View all 38 comments. Terrible as they were, those books had literary merits of a Twinkie - and were just as addicting.
And now this is out, and can I really think I have the willpower not to read this sparkly creepy vampire opus? Also, what the hell is that cover??? Pomegranate — or a partially dissected heart? Reminds me of anatomy lab and all that formaldehyde smell Blergh : "I want to chomp into your throoooooat. And watch you bleed out on the floooooor. Then I'll bathe myself in your life essence as you die.
Tear your heart out of your chest and crack the bones and suck the marrow out. Slice into your brain for sandwiches and maybe have an omelette made of--" We already knew that cute subtle sparkly sheen was the skin of a killer.
Literally the opening scene of this book has his internal monologue bitch and whine about everyone and everything around him, including his family. Why did she have to exist? Why did she have to ruin the little peace I had in this nonlife of mine?
Why had this aggravating human ever been born? She would ruin me. It would be a jumble of images, sentence fragments, overlapping distracted thoughts, visuals, etc. About everything. Every minute detail. Every single word ever said. Twenty pages of Edward interrogating Bella about her likes and dislikes. A page and a half of Sparkly Sparkleson choosing a shirt to wear. Sufficient to say that pacing — what pacing? Without thinking about my action, I automatically reached out and caught her by the back of her rain jacket.
She jerked to a stop. Sparkleson, your actions seem to trigger some serious arrhythmia in your girlfriend. You may want to think about EKG. Two medical degrees, Doctor Sparklepants — you know this could be deadly. Those balance and coordination issues are way more than endearing clumsiness. Did she have a stroke? Does she have a brain tumor? I mean, a person should be able to walk on a flat surface without tripping for at least a few steps, right?
Did you say TWO medical degrees, Dr. You never considered asking your girlfriend to get a brain MRI? That sight distracted me for a second. Strange, unfamiliar reactions stirred deep in my forgotten human core. Strange unfamiliar reactions deep in your core? You are simply horny. She had to suffer through the low-rise jeans phase, so I owe it to her.
And she loved them. High school Lindsey was a moron. Bella may be one-dimensional, but at least she knows how to move the plot along. Edward is incapable of doing so. None of his thoughts are snarky or amused, but his dialogue certainly is. But, there were parts in Twilight where he seemed genuinely amused by Bella.
Yet, none of his thoughts reflect that. Thus, it feels patched together. High school Lindsey would already own a pillow case of the cover. View all 70 comments. Aug 24, noelle rated it it was ok. Posted my reading vlog surrounding this book! You can watch for my full thoughts! View all 6 comments. May 04, Tatiana marked it as lost-interest. Maybe George R. Martin is next? Megan Whalen Turner? Patrick Rothfuss? Searching for silver lining very hard here.
I never even cared about this, but life as it is now, I might actually partake in some sparkly icicle camp. View all 39 comments. May 04, Chelsea Humphrey marked it as dnf-lost-interest. View all 25 comments. I loved Twilight. Fuck all y'all haters. I've been salivating to read this ever since that partial first draft of the original Midnight Sun got leaked years ago.
But after reading this? I wish Stephenie Meyer had just pulled on her big girl panties and finished it back then. This Edward was too breathy and overdramatic.
He came across as one of those bitches who would willingly saw his penis off as an apology for scaring you with his boner. The first few chapters were the hard I loved Twilight. The first few chapters were the hardest, because Edward sounded like such a poncy twat that I really didn't know if I wanted to keep listening to his inner monologue. He was so condescending and obnoxious, it just felt like his thoughts were on a repetitive loop.
I am an ageless vampyre full of ennui. Humans are disgusting creatures that I am loathe to spend time with. And yet, I'm forever sitting in this high school biology class That schtick that got old. I'll admit that as the story went on, he really did become a lot more tolerable. Gotta be honest though, he was not as charming as I remembered. One petty reason is most likely because I imagined this super hot guy when I read the book a million years ago.
I can't remember what that dream man looked like now, however, because I have an image of Pattinson stuck in my head. This is not the image I wanted. The guy who played Edward is one of those rare people who has two faces.
I'll look at him from one angle and think, Hey! He's not half bad! Then he tilts his head a bit to the left? Jesus Christ! It's a monster! That's a skill an actor can use right there. The whole book was probably a bit marred by those terrible movies and the actors who played the roles. What did they do to make them look that way - paint them with chalk each day on the set?
They were supposed to be pale and attractive, not look like they'd been dipped in white-out. And can someone please explain why half the time they look like they're wearing cheap wigs!?
I can't know for sure how much my loathing for those movies did to taint my viewpoint, but I do know that I preferred the characters that I'd imagined a long time ago more than what I kept seeing this time around.
I get it. This is supposed to be a representation of how you feel in the throes of your first love. But I honestly don't remember being this fucking dramatic. Maybe I was. I'm willing to admit that I may have forgotten what it was like to think of a man as the all-encompassing center of my universe. Yeah, yeah. I love my husband This is just a lot of teenage nonsense. They're both virgins who have never been in love or even dated anyone beforehand. You remember what that was like, right?
Me neither. And that's ok. It's part of what's so fun about occasionally dipping my toes back into the Young Adult genre. You're giving yourself permission to forget reality and pretend that breathy sighs, chaste kisses, and holding hands are what makes the world go round.
You can believe that your love for this perfect boy will make up for the fact that his family are all raging lunatics that you'll be tethered to till the end of time. At any rate, I finished this for nostalgia's sake. But I can't say that it recaptured any of that original magic I felt when I first read the books. But I'm a glutton for punishment, so if she makes a New Moon version from Ed's point of view?
I'll read that bitch. View all 84 comments. It takes another kind of genius to sell us the same story three times and still get us hyped up for it. Twilight has it's flaws. This we know. This we acknowledge. It's like one of those low budget soap operas. You know it's terrible shit, but you also can't stop yourself from watching the next episode. Well that's how it is for me anyway.
If you're thinking of picking this up please know that it's basically the exact same story as Twilight book 1 with a few added parts since unbelievably Edw It takes another kind of genius to sell us the same story three times and still get us hyped up for it. If you're thinking of picking this up please know that it's basically the exact same story as Twilight book 1 with a few added parts since unbelievably Edward is not always glued to Bella's side.
Even though this book took me ages to read, I laughed at all the cringey scenes but also thoroughly enjoyed myself. I got a tad bit annoyed at the sense of deja vu but then again I've read and reread this series waaaaayy more times than I'd like to admit.
I always used to think of Bella as having a personality of a potato. Edward is very perceptive and I liked the things he noticed about Bella's character. The way he is able to read minds and NOT able read Bella's mind means that he picked up on all her little quirks and sees her in a different light than she sees herself.
He actually made me like her. I've also always been hardcore TeamJacob don't come at me for that but reading from Edwards POV has nudged me just a tiny bit to the other side. He's more real than he appeared in the other books. I loved reading about his inner turmoil and the way he justifies his crazy actions.
However the dude is still a creepy stalker TeamJacob4evaaaaa. In Midnight Sun we not only get Edward's POV but also his insight and the thoughts he reads through other people's minds. Which was fascinating!! I honestly don't know how he stays sane. I loved the flashbacks. We got to know more about Edwards early days, more about Carlisle, how Alice and Jasper joined the family and other fun stuff!
Bella is an outsider looking in to the Cullen crew. But Edward's perspective as a member of the family was precious. Those were some of my favourite parts of this book. Rosalie is one of my favourite characters. Yes, she's a bitch. But I love it.
I thought it worked like this: you printed a copy of your novel, wrapped it up in brown paper, and sent it off to a publishing house. I started googling naturally and began to discover that this was not the way it is done.
Movies lie to us! A side note: you will not be able to enjoy the new Steve Martin version of Cheaper by the Dozen when you know how insanely impossible the publishing scenario it contains is.
The whole set up with query letters, literary agents, simultaneous submissions vs. I subscribed to WritersMarket. In her Q and A for writers section, Janet E. Writers House went on my wish list as the most desirable and also least likely.
I sent out around fifteen queries and I still get residual butterflies in my stomach when I drive by the mailbox I sent the letters from—mailing them was terrifying.
I still have them all, too. The only rejection that really hurt was from a small agent who actually read the first chapter before she dropped the axe on me. My big break came in the form of an assistant at Writers House named Genevieve. I mailed off those three chapters and got a letter back a few weeks later I could barely get it open, my hands were so weak with fear.
It was a very nice letter. That was the exact moment when I realized that I might actually see Twilight in print, and really one of the happiest points in my whole life. S et aside the millions of copies sold, the controversies over both its sexual overtones and its lack of actual sex, and the blockbuster film franchise and celebrity careers it spawned: Twilight told a simple story, one nearly as old as its immortal antihero.
Vampire meets girl. Vampire wants to bite girl. Vampire and girl settle for some heavy necking — and some agonised yearning, which they seem to enjoy just as much. As was made explicit when the story was wrung dry of teen pheromones and repurposed as Fifty Shades of Grey, what fuelled the Twilight phenomenon 15 years ago was the ecstasy of delayed gratification, and the pleasure to be found in pain.
Early chapters of the book were leaked in , prompting Meyer to put the project on hold. But 12 years later, the novel is out — and, at more than pages, it is immediately clear why it took her so long. His sister Alice sees visions of the future and both skills function quite prosaically as plot devices as Edward listens in on people thinking about Bella, or grills Alice about what is going to happen to her. Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever mad I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape.
I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair wind To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for It's here! Number one bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with thi Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by the riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character introduced in Eclipse, an I liked how bella's life changed and found love.
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