He meets Bella, who is his greatest temptation to kill humans again after a decades-long streak of abstinence, and so his struggle with his nature vs. In Midnight Sun, we get a good look at Edward’s internal struggles with morality in regards to his very nature. They were more concerned with the negative effects of immortality and being damned.
For example, Anne Rice expertly explored vampiric existential crises in her Vampire Chronicles books, but her vampires were not fully trying to change their diets. The very fact that there are vampires trying to be “good” and not feed on humans is different and makes for interesting moral dilemmas. That being said, vampires are portrayed very differently in Twilight than in most other stories.
Yet before I had found any of those books and films, Twilightwas the first series that introduced me to vampires as actual characters that you could like and empathize with. I’ve read everything from Carmilla to Interview with the Vampire to The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, and watched shows and films like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and What We Do In The Shadows. What Midnight Sun gets right: If you know me, you know I love vampire literature. To make Midnight Sun even more interesting, its first few chapters were actually leaked years ago, and fans thought that Meyer would therefore never finish the book- and yet here we are today. Since the original Twilight series only offered us Bella’s perspective (and a few chapters from Jacob’s), readers had not been privy to the inner workings of a Twilight vampire until now. Midnight Sun retells the story of the first Twilight book from the perspective of Edward Cullen, a “good” vampire who can read minds and is the central love interest of the series. In 2020, author Stephenie Meyer announced that her long-awaited book Midnight Sun would be released. Maybe you loved the books growing up, or maybe you instantly hated the fame and drama that surrounded the new fad. If you’ve been alive for at least the past 20 years, then you know about the infamous phenomenon that was the Twilight series.