After all, if you’re going to invest in a love story, it is well to be familiar with both the parties involved. As a companion piece, it is irresistible. And when one of the lovers involved happens to be immortal, well, there’s a whole lot of context and conflict to explore.Īs we’ve said above, Midnight Sun focuses on Edward, and really delves into the extent of his anxiety and misgiving upon meeting Bella. Just how much the interceding twelve-ish years have affected Meyer’s approach to the story really begs to be seen.Įvery great romance, especially one that sets off an epic chain of events, has more than one side to it. It’s a tantalising prospect, isn’t it? While it’s not uncommon for YA novels to receive a similar retelling treatment, the emotion involved in such a rewrite seldom gets as much attention. I think he comes across in ‘Twilight’ being very strong and so super sure of himself, when that never was really actually the case.” He starts off fairly confident, but boy does he get broken down by the end. His anxiety combined with mine was potent.

Writing him made me more anxious, and that’s one of the reasons it was hard to be in that story. I think the part that people won’t expect is: Edward is a very anxious character. I like that experience, stripping away your humanity and getting to be something other. “The things that I enjoy most about it are - I liked not being the human being. In an interview with The New York Times, Meyer offered a significant taste of what Midnight Sun is really about: The book retells events from Edward Cullen’s point of view, providing a deeper look into his character and history, and granting a fresh perspective on the now widely-known story. Midnight Sun offers readers the chance to dive once again into the Twilight story… whether or not we have read the original saga. At last, the book is now available and, even though it was only published this week, is already topping charts all over the place. However, it was “shelved indefinitely” in 2008 following an online leak that both shocked and offended Meyer. The author of the Twilight Saga, which, of course, has long been a pop-culture sensation and arguably still has some influence when it comes to genre entertainment, actually wrote the manuscript for Midnight Sun several years back. Stephenie Meyer has once again proved that public appetite for this era’s most famous vampire and his lady love is as bottomless as the blood-hunger that drives the undead legend.

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