FutureĪt Books-A-Million's virtual live event in August 2020, Meyer announced that she has plans for two more Twilight books. Midnight Sun sold one million copies in its first week of publication. She also noted that the sexual tension between the two main characters was hindered by having to adhere to the original storyline. At The Washington Post, Karin Tanabe criticized the lack of diversity in the characters, describing the Quileute characters as "stereotypical B-list characters". Kirkus Reviews posited that the "glacial pace" of the book allowed for a focus on characterization, and predicted that fans would forgive, or even enjoy, its "excesses and indulgences". At The Independent, Annie Lord also noted the large overlap with Twilight, and called the writing "laughably bad", but noted that fans would enjoy gaining new insights into Edward's relationship with his sister. She lamented the lack of new lore and how the strict adherence to scenes in the original Twilight made the book boring. Elle Hunt at The Guardian wrote that the book was "chronically overwritten" and under-edited.
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Release Critical receptionĬritics panned the novel, with review aggregator Book Marks reporting one positive and two mixed reviews out of a total of nine reviews. However, in May 2020, Meyer announced that the book would be released on August 4, 2020. "It was a literal flip the table moment for me", Meyer reportedly said. In 2015, following the release of Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, the first Twilight novel gender-bent, Meyer felt comfortable to pick up writing again, but as she said to a comic-con panel in 2015: "What do you think was the top story on Yahoo the next morning? Grey." She was referring to Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian which, as the subtitle says, is a retelling of the first Fifty Shades of Grey book through the eyes of Christian Grey. And I cannot write when I don't feel alone." She said that her goal was to go for around two years without hearing about Midnight Sun, and she thought that she would begin working on the novel again once she was sure that "everyone's forgotten about it". In a November 2008 interview, Meyer said that, "It's really complicated, because everyone now is in the driver's seat, where they can make judgment calls. Meyer also stated that she does not believe the manuscript was leaked with any malicious intent, and would not give any names. In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely." She made the twelve-chaptered draft available on her website in fairness to her readers, since the novel was compromised before its intended publication date. She stated, "If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die, which wouldn't dovetail too well with the original story. Ms Meyer had originally abandoned writing the prequel after a rough draft of it was leaked online in 2008, saying it was "a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being".On August 28, 2008, Meyer halted the writing of Midnight Sun in response to the leak of twelve chapters of the unfinished manuscript on the Internet. The books were transformed into five record-breaking movies, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Midnight Sun is narrated by moody and broody "vegetarian" vampire Edward Cullen, whose love affair with the lip-biting, breathy-sigher Bella Swan provokes an existential crisis for both that dominates the four novels in the Twilight series.
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Even without this title movement, a book from Stephenie Meyer would always be one of the biggest releases of the year," Ms Sherwin-Stark said.īooktopia's children's and young adult category manager Sarah McDuling said the online retailer had pre-sold nearly 3000 copies of Midnight Sun, "far outstripping" the sales for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the prequel in Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games series released in May. "Many of the big books for this year have been moved out of the last few months due to COVID and delayed until later this year or even next year.