Midnight Sun will tell the story from Edward’s perspective. It’s a reimagined version of Meyer’ first Twilight book, Twilight, which tells the love story between Bella Swan, a teenage girl who moves to Forks, Washington, and Edward Cullen, a thousand-year-old vampire falls in love with her. Midnight Sun is a prequel to the Twilight series. The cover is a reference to the Twilight cover, which featured two hands holding an apple.

The cover is an open pomegranate with juice dripping like blood against a black background. I’m so excited to finally be able to share it with you.” What’s the cover? Hopefully this book can be a distraction from the real world. It didn’t seem fair to make you wait anymore. “It’s a crazy time right now and I wasn’t sure if this was the right time to put this book out, but some of you have been waiting for just so, so long. “I am very excited to finally, finally announce the release of Midnight Sun on August 4,” Meyer said in a May interview on Good Morning America. It’s available for preorder on Amazon for $27.99įor the hardcover edition and $14.99 for the Kindle version. Midnight Sun will be released on August 4, 2020. Find more information about the prequel ahead.

There is so much more to his side of the story than there is to Bella’s in that first chapter,” she wrote on her website about the inspiration for Midnight Sun. “While I was procrastinating some real editing work (I’m always at my most creative when procrastinating), I started to wonder how the first chapter of Twilight would read if it were written from Edward’s perspective. (Soon after, she posted a rough draft of the book but made no promises to publish a finalized, edited version.) So, yes, this means that there likely won’t be any Jacob Black in the prequel.Īs fans recall, Meyer published a rough draft of the first draft of the book in 2008, but after the manuscript for the whole novel was leaked, she decided to cancel the series. As opposed to Twilight, which is from female lead Bella Swan’s perspective, Midnight Sun will be told from her vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen’s point of view. The book, titled Midnight Sun, is a reimagined version of the first Twilight series book, Twilight, which was released in 2005. Meyer announced in an interview on Good Morning America on Monday, May 4, that she will be releasing her first Twilight book in 12 years on August 4. So when’s the release date for the Twilight prequel, Midnight Sun, you ask? Well, it won’t be too long until we have the first Twilight book in 12 years in our hands. Who knew a new Twilight book was what 2020 needed? Stephanie Meyer has a Twilight prequel in the works, and it’s called Midnight Sun.

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