MIDNIGHT SUN REVIEW--BY ME

MIDNIGHT SUN
Hey you Twilight Saga fans out there, have you read “Midnight Sun” yet? Maybe you ask me “Midnight Sun won’t be released because its unfinished draft has illegally spread on internet, will it?” Yes guys it does. But Stephanie Meyer has legally let us read the partial draft of Midnight Sun! You can download the PDF file from www.stepheniemeyer.com and/or read it for free!

Okay. What’s so great about this novel then? (I don’t know if ‘novel’ is a right word, maybe ‘draft’ suits better). All right. This draft tells us the same story in “Twilight”, but from Edward’s point of view. As we know, Twilight telling stories from Bella’s perspective.

In the first page, Edward tells us how it felt to be a vampire with a special talent (reading other people’s mind). He thought it was so boring to be ‘trapped’ in high school, acted like he was a human. He thought it’s so boring to read human’s mind, which focused on the new girl in his school that day. He felt uneasy too, reading his sibling’s mind, who were falling in love deeply and left him the only one alone. He felt sort of dislike and concern hearing Jasper’s, his brother’s mind, who was craving for human’s blood. He considered himself and Alice (her sister who has a special talent too, seeing future) as ‘both freaks among those who were already freaks’.

Then he saw Bella, the new girl in school. He wondered why he can’t read Bella’s mind. At biology class, he found that Bella’s blood scent was so tempting that the temptation was agonizing. He planned many ways to drink her blood, when his soberness came to and left Bella safe at last. To keep himself from killing Bella, he decided to go to Denali. Got his faith regained, he decided to go back to Forks and convinced himself that he would not kill Bella and disobey his family’s etiquette: Doesn’t kill humans for their blood.

He tried his best in the next biology class not to breath (it’s not a hard thing for a vampire to do), so he wouldn’t smell Bella’s scent. He still couldn’t read Bella’s mind, so he talked to her and questioning many things about her. He found Bella’s answer was interesting and unpredictable. But he was still cautious of her safety. He started to observe Bella’s behavior, trying to guess what was in her mind and what her reason was so she did that.

One day, Bella almost got killed by a car slipped on parking lot. Edward saved her life by catching her and pushed the car away from her. Bella, who’s seeing him across her before, asked Edward how he came to her that fast. Edward worried that his rescue would reveal his and his family’s true identity as a vampire. So he answered Bella’s question ruefully and Bella got angry to him. She said that Edward was regretting to save her. Edward got angry back to her, because he thought that his rescue was the only behavior towards Bella that was acceptable.

Conversely, Alice seeing in Edward’s future that he would be falling in love with Bella. Surely, Edward denied it and said that she would be wrong. In the next biology lesson, Bella’s friend, Mike, who looked interested to Bella since the first time, asked Bella to be his companion in school dance. Bella didn’t say yes. Edward thought that someday Bella would say yes to somebody and live her life like a normal person: school, college, marriage, and children. In that day, he talked to Bella again. And Alice’s prediction was right.

He was falling in love. Stephenie Meyer writes Edward’s emotion beautifully. It’s told that Edward went to Bella’s room every night, watching her sleeping. He “could not understand why I had not found her beautiful immediately”. She took his breath away. And he found that Bella talked in her sleep and sighed his name, begged him not to go from her. Stephenie wrote: “I struggled to find words to name the feelings that flooded through me, but I had no words strong enough to hold them. For a long moment, I drowned in them. When I surfaced, I was not the same man I had been. My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be a midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?”

Ah, how beautiful. So, according to Edward, Bella was his sun. Sun that was raising in his midnight, light his dark and unchanging life. Stephenie’s Edward was so romantic. But then he thought whether he was worth for Bella or not. Because he considered himself as a monster and Bella deserved better. Not him. Not Mike Newton and Bella’s other boy fans.

Then he started to court her. He wondered if Bella had the same feeling like him or not. Bella’s heart rate always increased when she was with him, but he thought that other emotions, like scared, could produce the same effect. Bella seemed dazzled, and he was dazzled too. At last Bella knew Edward’s true identity; she knew that Edward was a vampire. But she wasn’t afraid. This made Edward worried about her safety. Because he knew that Bella’s scent was a great temptation for him. But Bella wasn’t scared. They were dating.

Okay…the draft consists of 264 pages, 12 chapters. The last chapter is “Complicated” (the chapter’s title is the same like Twilight). It is a partial draft after all, and it got me curious. Ah! It’s unfinished. I want to know more about Edward’s thoughts. His thought is interesting, unpredictable, and sometimes, naïve. Edward, unpredictably, felt insecure toward himself. He thought he wasn’t good enough for Bella, because he wasn’t a human. And he envied Carlisle (his father, a doctor) who could examine Bella after the almost-accident without any fear that he would kill her. Edward felt uneasy too, to read other’s mind. Because he thought that read other’s minds meant doesn’t give them privacy. But helplessly, he couldn’t help it. Interesting. I thought he was always sure of himself and, I would like to be able to read other’s mind. Hahaha.

For you Twilight saga lovers, especially Edward’s fans, I strongly recommend you to read this. Go, baby! Download it fast. This draft is too great to be missed. Cheers!