On August 30, Stephenie Meyer posted a notice on her official website saying that someone close to her who she had given an early draft of her upcoming novel, “Midnight Sun,” had leaked it onto the internet. “It has taken me a while to decide how and if I could respond. But to end the confusion, I’ve decided to make the draft available [on her website],” she said in her statement. “This way, my readers don’t have to feel they have to make a sacrifice to stay honest.”
“So where does this leave Midnight Sun? My first feeling was that there was no way to continue,” she wrote. “In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely.”
After reading the draft of “Midnight Sun” that was posted, I only have three words for Ms. Meyer: Please finish it.
For those readers who are not familiar with the concept of the novel, “Midnight Sun” is a rewrite of Meyer’s first novel, “Twilight,” from its hero’s perspective: Edward instead of Bella. She has even said before that, once she started writing “Midnight Sun,” she realized that she should have told the story from Edward’s perspective all along. She was right.
What made “Twilight” so interesting was the dynamic between Edward and Bella. Edward was torn between his “wants” for Bella; he was in love with her, and yet he wanted to kill her. In “Twilight,” the reader got a confusing take on his confusion from Bella. She was unsure of his emotions and reactions towards her, and so were we. Did he want to kiss her or kill her? Was it lust or bloodlust?
“Midnight Sun” clears those up. Finally, the enigma that is Edward begins to make sense. Sure, the novel remains about a third completed (the draft is only 264 pages long), but even only telling the story until the drive home after the tense Biology Movie Class Scene, so many puzzle pieces fell into place: What Edward did when he went North to escape Bella. Edward’s hand in Angela and Ben’s relationship. Edward’s real excuse for following Bella to Port Angeles. The extent of Edward’s love for Bella, and the explanation behind it.
Sure, Edward still is a creepy stalker who can’t get enough of watching Bella sleep, but it works because we have an explanation for it. Just like writing Bella’s pregnancy in “Breaking Dawn” from Jacob’s perspective led to some confusion and irritation over Bella’s motives for giving birth to what Jacob thought was a monster, writing “Twilight” from Bella’s perspective led to confusion and harsh claims against Edward’s character. Edward’s perspective is much more fun than it should be as it shows how he rediscovers his 17-year-old side after being trapped in the same body for almost a century. And that includes hormones.
While Edward’s voice is a lot more interesting than Bella’s (and significantly less annoying), “Midnight Sun” is still very much a chick read. I can’t see 14 to 21 year old boys going to a book store and wanting to swoon over Edward’s endless monologue about his love for Bella, but anyone who enjoyed the Twilight saga will definitely enjoy this installment.
The part of “Midnight Sun” that was the most fun was reading everyone’s minds (except Bella, of course) alongside Edward. Meyer is able to include scenes that Edward was unable to see by having him watch it from someone else’s perspective. It is fun to see how all the pieces that were missing from “Twilight” fall into place, and of course we don’t have the same frustration Edward has because if a reader wants to know how Bella is feeling, they can just flip to that scene in “Twilight.”
It is almost funny to see how Edward’s bias of Bella is almost as severe as Bella’s is of him. To Bella, Edward is the most attractive, perfect man in the realm of existence. To Edward, no one else can anywhere near compare to how delicate, pretty, and selfless Bella is. Seeing their views of one another makes it clearer that the “perfection” they find in each other is mostly their mutual love and a decent percentage exaggerated.
“Midnight Sun” is nothing more than a companion piece; don’t think that you can just skip over the Twilight saga and just start from Edward’s perspective because there are a lot of missing details that were explained in previous books and did not need to be explained again. For example, Peter and Charlotte are introduced early on in “Midnight Sun,” while Bella did not know that they existed until “Eclipse.” “Midnight Sun” is a fun way for Twilight fans to re-explore the universe that they had come to love in a new way, a way that will lead to many, many “Oh, well that makes more sense” moments.
So please, Stephanie, please finish writing “Midnight Sun.” After all, you can’t leave us hanging by not sharing The Meadow Scene from Edward’s perspective with us.
i know there are already many people who are begging for stephenie to finish midnight sun. but still i’m gong to beg for it too! i really rweally love the twilight saga. and i am desperate to have more of it! the midnight sun is really something worth to read. we all know that the leak was something that will hurt so much. but please, please! finish the midnight sun. i am so dying desperate to read it! i hope stephenie reads this site. coz i want her to know this: i am here in the philippines and everybody knows we’re in the far east of the world. but oh well, almost all people here are obsessed with the whole twilight thing! almost all are obsessed and the rest do like it! and we are really getting more obsessed to it as everyday passes. and of course, as everybody else does, we want to read twilight (the whole of it if possible) from edward’s point of view! honestly, i haven’t read yet the draft because my computer here is not working well with pdf fies. but i am really really dying to read it!! goodness knows how much i love twilight and the whole thiing of it! i am only 13 years old and i’m in my second year high school, and the whole of our class is really talking all about it! and anywhere else you go in the university of santo tomas, you’ll find students who are reading the books or talking about it!. so please stephenie, we need more of them!! we really want midnight sun..so please please!!!! do finish it! you know, bookstores here are always sold-out with your books in just a 5-day span (and hello, they order a lot!)
After reading books in this series, I have three words as well: Please stop writing.
I’m actually happy she put the first book in Bella’s perspective. I don’t think I would be that into it, if I had to start reading from Edwards veiw. Don’t get me wrong, there both good, but I think because I’m a girl, the girl perspective intrested me more…The movie was the best ever!
Finally gave in to reading Midnight Sun over the weekend, and loved it! I totally knew all the way through that it would stop just before the meadow chapter, which seems a little convenient to me as totally the best point to leave us hanging from! I think that was definitely intentional. It’s amazing how the same events are totally different from Edward’s perspective (as much as I love him, he is such an idiot at times, by the way) and actually one of the best things was hearing other people’s thoughts via Edward- Jessica is such a bitch, but hilarious much! And poor old Mike just didn’t have a clue. In a way MS gives us a lot that Twilight didn’t, because Bella’s take on other people’s thoughts are often so different to the reality. I loved Edward’s helping hand re: Ben and Angela.
I have no doubt that Stephenie will finish MS at some point, otherwise she wouldn’t have made damn sure we were left panting for more…
i have not read midnight sun because i dont want to ruin it if she ever does finish it and i hope she does becuase if she doesnt i will nvr get to read it!!!
I read Midnight Sun on the website, and I really hope Ms Meyer does finish it. As a writer (alas, with way more than her 7 rejection notices, still unpublished) myself, I know how precious characters are to the writer. and Edward being precious to her, she should get back in touch with him rather than dwelling on the jealous idiot who leaked what she had so far. Please, for those of us who also love Edward, please finish Midnight Sun!
I am the biggest twilight addict of you all i have read it i swear over a hundred times as well as the rest of them breaking dawn was the most amazing theing i have ever laid my eyes on it would seriously kill me if she didnt finish midnight sun but from what i have read on her site im sure she is fininging it thank whatever made her choose to. i want to read the first chapter on her site and it is taking every thing in me not to so i hope that it gets out before my birthday because that would be the best present i EVER recieved.
plus the movie was amazing ive seen it seven times!!!!! Rob Peter and Jackson (edward, carlisle, and jasper ) were so hot
Stephanie ,
I have read your series over and over again and it left me in tears in giggles and most of all craving more and more. I have never finished a book before( i have dislexia and it makes it hard to read ) and never in my life thought i would want to pick up a book and i wasnt the only one amazed my mom was .
Stephanie these books opened my eyes and made me want to become a writer myself . Please do all your fans a favor and finish midnight sun forget the scumbag who released it on the internet it still will be a #1 seller and you’ll make alot of people happy and besides i actually want to read but dont have anything to but the ones i already have read in your series .
From your #1 fan , Bethany Van Meter
plllllllleeeeeaaaaaaaassssssse finish the book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you don’t i get grounded each time I am caught reading Bella’s point of cause i have read it so many times my mom banned it from my house and has my teachers watching what i am reading like a hawk so please finish midnight sun so i don’t get grounded for another 2 weeks!!!!!!!! i have gone insane with reading i think i need to go to the crazy house and get locked in a room with one small window and a door with no handle!!!!!!!!!
i have seen the movie 3 times and me and my friend are in a compitition on who can read twilight the most.
I am a young reader of the Twilight book serires and I’m overly obsessed. I read the draft online hoping and praying that it would make it to the meadow scene. Please, please, please write the midnight sun book for the young (me) and old (my mom) fans!! PLEASE!!!!!
wow wow wow!!!!!!!!!!
you can’t stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese i need that book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by the way you awsome!!!!!!
love twilight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<3
Stephenie please finish Midnight Sun. I am so hooked on you books, and this would add to the complexity of Edward. I have read the partial draft on your website and i hope that you finish it. The part that i read was absolutely amazing. Please finish it, you would be doing all of the Twilight fans a favor.
I have to have it…. You cant just leave us hanging like that.
Stephanie –
Please, please finish writing Midnight Sun!
I only discovered them a few months ago but I am totally hooked on your books – as are many of my friends and we are all hoping Midnight Sun will be writen.
The Twilight series truely has changed my life – for the better.
My favourite charcter is (of course) Edward and after reading the first 12 chapters of Midnight Sun from your website, I can honestly say I love him even more.
I now understand why he does the things does and why he reacts the way he reacts in the first four books. He truely is MY brand of heroin.
Anyway, what i’m trying to say is please finish writing Midnight Sun, for if you were to stop completly, I would most likely go mad.
Thank you so much,
Love Emily
P.S:
If we don’t find out what Edward’s point of veiw is in the Meadow scene, we will ALL go mad……..epsecially me!
WOW i loved the partial draft and i dont know how much longer i can wait for the rest of it!!! stephenie,im so sorry about what happened with the leak but PLEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSE dont let it keep you from finishing it!!!! please
oh yeah and its driving me insane that it cut off right before the meadow scene!!!! aahhhhhhhhh
Stephnie,
Your tourchering me! Finish the book! Who cares if it’s online now!Your disapointing your fans!Finish it!Di ypu think I want to read a book that’s have way written? Would you? No.F*** YOU!
I agree with everyone , what a shame to not complete it. Please!
please please please please please finish the book!!!! please i love twilight and i really really want to read this plus it is a little unfair to edward if you dont let him have his point of view. please please please! please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please!!! im addicted to twilight!! its all i ever read!! i want to read this so badly!!!!! twilight is all my friends and i ever talk about!!! alice’s 911 turbo porsche is my desktop!!! i want a car just like that!! i saw the movie with my friends on opening day!!! it wasnt near as good as the book which im reading for the fith time ilove twilight wwaaaaaaaaaaayyy more than Harry Potter!! its the best series in the world and it needs to be completed!!! please!!! im begging you! for all of the millions of twilight fans! for me! please oh please finish Midnight Sun!!!! please!!! please!!! please!!!
i know this is my third message but please!!! the anticipation is killing every twilight fan!!!! not finishing midnight sun would be like if you stopped wrighting new moon right after edward left!!! i love twilight and i am dying to hear it from edwards point of veiw!!!! please!!! i love twilight, and it would devestate me and every twilight fan above who wrote a message and many others if midnight sun was left incomplete!!!!! im begging you and will go to your house (i live in phoenix) ,get on my knees and beg you to finish this book!! i was really , really, looking forward to understanding some of the things edward says and does better but if you dontt finish midnight sun that will be impossible. please try to see this from a twilight lovers point of view!!! i cant live without twilight and i’m willing to bet that none of the others above me who comented could either!! please please please,im begging you to do this. you know you want to finish the book. you know you want edwards story told. so please do the right thing by finishing this book.
-Grace
Please please continue on midnight sun! Or you will most likely cause huge teenage devistation among a lot of fans!!! And why stop at midnight sun. Re-write the rest of the books in edwards point of view then we will have 8 great!! best selling books to read over and over!! WE ALL JUST LOVE YOU FOR WRITING THE BOOKS SO DON’T STOP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
-Jetti [HUGE Twilight series fan!!!!!]
