I fell in love with Edward Cullen when she was 15 years old. After seeing TwilightI went and bought all the four novels, which had conveniently been published prior to the adaptation to the screen was put in place. At the time, I was in the middle of my first “serious” relationship, but he would be graduating and leaving the university. As he began to pull away from me, I delved deeper into this fantastic world marked by mystery, full of adrenaline, adventures, romantic gestures near comic of the scale, and, well, by the way, the vampires.
I knew very little about romantic love, and even less about the inner workings of the teenage men. I didn’t have the tools or the means to understand the ways in which the story’s central relationship — and, in truth, my own — may be toxic. There was a Twilight the novel from the perspective of Edward, offered to me at that moment, I was consumed without question. After more than a decade, Stephenie Meyer has done exactly that, but circumstances have changed, and I’m no longer a teenager. How to dive back into what you once meant something to you, long after you’ve gone? And why?
How to dive back into what you once meant something to you, long after you’ve gone?
Earlier this year, Meyer confirmed that she was launching a fifth, and presumably final, novel in the series in August. 4. Midnight Sun it would be a retelling of the events of the first installment of Edward’s point of view, unlike our former familiar protagonist and heroine, Bella Swan. The author had written and planned on the release of the companion piece in 2008, around the time of the first movie, but ultimately, scrapped his plans after the manuscript was leaked online. The state of Midnight Sun then it was more an “exercise in character development that got wildly out of control,” Meyer said recently The Hollywood Reporter.
All these years later, however, Meyer was ready. “I don’t know how everyone is fighting, but now the books are my main comfort and more happy to escape. Personally, I would be nothing but delighted if one of my favorite authors, has announced something new for me to read,” she wrote in the announcement on its web site. “I hope that this announcement gave him some pleasure and some fun to look forward to.”
The time is, in fact, to the right, and the new release can help to occupy all the free time in the house, we have inherited of a sudden, as a result of the pandemic, but Meyer should have been preparing to release Midnight Sun long before that. So, why now? The optimist in me thinks Meyer, you can sense an authorial duty to finally end that “the exercise in character development” so that she could formally share it with the world, while the pessimist just believes that there is more to be taken advantage of this financial situation. The is not realistic you can come to the phone right now.
“We’ve had a lot of fun, isn’t it?”
Meyer acknowledged to herself Midnight Sun‘s abrupt entry or re-entry, rather. “Working on a book for more than thirteen years is a strange experience. I am not the same person I was then. My children have grown up. My back was unlikely. The world is a different place. I can only imagine all the things that have changed for you,” his statement read. Then she wrote something that made me: “We’ve had a lot of fun, isn’t it? Throw proms in and out in hotel rooms and reading on the beach (to get the most epic sunburns of our lives). We have made hilarious t-shirts, and fabulous websites. We have found soul mates that are still in our lives now. I hope to go back to the beginning of Bella and Edward’s story is a reminder to all that fun, too.”
We had a lot of fun, but I think that my journey with Twilight it is intended to resemble the high school. You write “keep in touch” in classmates ‘ yearbooks, and to do, at least for a while until, finally, talking less and less. Then not at all.
I still don’t know if I’m going to finish reading Midnight Sun. I currently don’t have plans, but I am also fully aware of the fact that my curiosity is able to overcome any of the above-mentioned doubts and hesitations, just let me read the whole thing in one sitting some moody fall weekend. And I am sure that is going to be fun.
