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Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
DID NOT FINISH
emotional sad tense slow-paced
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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.