Just as every other book she has written...

Stephenie has a great mind and she is a wonderful writer. This was a book series that I absolutely love and unlike other series, The view point of the co-main character, was told wonderfully! I can't wait for the next book by Stephenie Meyer! ( )

I think this version is better than the original "Twilight" novel. It is more interesting to read things from Edwards point of view. I think it sucks that this project is on hold indefinitely. I would love to have been able to read the entire book and versions for the other three books. Hopefully one day it will be completed as well as versions for the other three. ( )

It was interesting and enlightening experiencing the Twilight story as it unfolded from Edward's - a vampire - point of view. This partially-completed book is basically a journey in his mind; a taste of his struggles as he finds himself falling for a frail and fragile mortal - so terribly taboo!

It was eye-opening to discover during the process how intense a vampire's emotions and internal drive really are, nearly to the point of choking off his agency. Edward's obsession with Bella seems less eerie knowing this. The love attraction that overwhelms him is depicted as potent enough to rival the werewolf's imprinting. It seems these immortal creatures are more effected, even controlled to a greater degree, by instinct and nature than any human.

I enjoyed the book. And I especially appreciated getting to know Edward's personality better. It was refreshing to find how as a vampire with monstrous urges he still struggled to be a gentleman and a man of honorable character. ( )

'Sparkle Family Reunion Tour 2020' Reread

Yeaaaahh. My feelings about this series, twinkies, loving the Cullens, the writing playlist, and side-eying a whole lot of SM have pretty much not changed in the past decade. /// In general, I feel like I need to add the comment here that I long ago read the 2008 1st chapter draft, and the leaked Ch.1-12 draft that made SM throw her childish fit and take her toys out of the yard.

I still love these 12 chapters more than I love anything else in the whole series, but no one is really surprised about that, since I'm here for Edward, The Cullens, and the centuries of time they've lived together more than anything else in this universe.

Which, of course, means, now that we are starting to see the new quotes for the forthcoming publication, and suddenly that book has been rewritten around the 'Persephone & Hades' myth, which these 12 chapters never were definitely has me at a very large amount of "...... #ohno."


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(2008 Reviews / Continued Across all four books / all read in less than 53 hours
Just going to copy these over from the lolarious mass-review I did in 2008)

Let me start this out with saying, I'm sure if I tried I could take these books seriously and in doing so I would abhor Stephenie Meyers with the utter damnation burning hate in ground into me by five years of being an English major, but honestly, I'm not sure how anyone could go into these books expecting (or wanting to expect) more than fanfic-esque fourteen-year-old-wish-fulfillment. Which is what I did and likely why I was willing to roll with it, because lets just start with the bare minimum that I knew before I started reading.

We have a protagonist girl, who comes from a broken home, who's paler than anyone else who's human and blushes as often as the wind blows, who's never been interested in a boy seriously before, with extremely low self-esteem, who is the worlds biggest cultz, who attracts danger like she's got a beacon on her head saying come and get it, who is all helplessly weak and who can not be touched, read, or effected by any type of mental magic.

She is paralleled by the boy protagonist, who just happens to be a one hundred and eight-year-old vampire with the most well-adjusted family of Brandy-style vampires, who doesn't drink human blood, with the one-way power to listen to other people's thoughts, who looks like a runway model or God, has never considered any other woman seriously before in his life and unlife, and has to be broody/moody/strong enough to resist killing her every moment he's near her because she's the one thing in the world he'd best love to do that to out of no fault of their own but fate.
I mean, c'mon, Anita Blake wasn't even that flagrantly Mary Sue-Fan Fic-ish until she became the Whore of Babylon. Thus I went into it expecting fourteen-year-old-wish fulfillment and lo and behold I was not surprised or disappointed when I found it there.

I think Cleolinda said it best:

A lot of people are really passionate about these books. Some of them love and defend them passionately; others... well. I'm not going to defend them anymore than I'm going to defend Twinkies--you go and get yourself a Twinkie when you have a very specific kind of craving. If you want a gourmet pastry or even a homemade cake, you know where to get that. If you're eating a Twinkie, you clearly know what you want and why you're eating it, and you know that it's not good to eat very many of them, but... you know... sometimes you just want one.

Midnight Sun Preview

I love chapter one. Indescribably. Because I adore Edward far more than Bella as a reliable aware person, and as a narrator, he is a key point for knowing exactly what's going on with anyone in proximity to him. And his first like ten pages prove my book two Alice-Edward theory entirely, because they have a system for talking to each other half-mind-listening, half-moving, and he keeps her secrets for her when she lies about her having used to her powers to see something. And this makes me utterly giddy. Yes, I am a fan of gen writing. I'm sure you can't tell.

And the biology scene and the car scene! And the commentary in his for things as simple as Bella shoving her hair as a curtain between them.

It all makes me want to run over Rob and Kristen and steal the twelve chapter drafts that Meyer's gave them so they'd know where Edward was coming from for the movie.

And I think for it being, Gods, just barely past three it's time to stop writing and sleep now. ( )

WOW!
No really. SO GOOD! I loved it.
If only ... all the books were written from Edward's perspective.
-melts into a puddle- Darn, finish it already, will you? ( )