Apparently, being able to hear the thoughts of literally everyone around him doesn't even make it interesting, because humans are boring. Relatable!Īnd because he's an overdramatic angsty boi, he waxes on about how high school is basically his purgatory and he can't even sleep through it. The first four books in the Twilight series, published between 20, have sold more than 100m copies worldwide, with the five-film adaptation taking $3.3bn (£2.6bn).Midnight Sun opens with Edward painfully bored at school. I am not ready to do that right now, I want to do something brand new.” I have got them outlined and a chapter written I think of the first one, so I know it’s there. For me, it’s not a happy place to be.” But on Monday, in an online event for US chain Books-A-Million, Meyer said she now has plans for more: “There are two more books I think in the world that I want to write. In 2013, Meyer said that she would never write another Twilight book, telling Variety that she would only do so if it was “three paragraphs on my blog saying which of the characters died … I get further away every day. It was when I thought that maybe someone was reading things on my computer that I was more frightened by it.” I think people made copies instead of returning it to me when they had been asked to read it. This August, she told the New York Times that she still wasn’t sure how it happened: “I don’t think there was any bad intent.

At the time, Meyer called the leak “a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being” and put the project on hold indefinitely. Meyer first announced the publication of Midnight Sun in May, 12 years after she abandoned the manuscript following an online leak of a draft. Midnight Sun is chronically overwritten, plodding along almost in real time.” The Independent deemed it “laughably bad writing”, while Kirkus called it “a love letter to fans who will forgive (and even revel in) its excesses and indulgences”. In the Guardian, Elle Hunt wrote, “It feels below the belt to criticise the quality of the writing, given that Twilight was never loved for that – but there is something to be said for editing. While enthusiasm among “Twihards” has held, critics have been less impressed. Then, UK readers snapped up 89,549 copies of the novella, which was also available free online at the time, in its first 19 hours on sale – the equivalent of 79 copies a minute. However, this was a considerably slower launch than 2010, when Meyer published her Twilight spin-off The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. In the UK, 62,460 hardback copies of Midnight Sun were sold in the three days between launch and the cut-off date for sales monitor Nielsen BookScan’s charts, giving Meyer the No 1 spot.

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