Midnight Sun (Meyer novel) Midnight Sun (Meyer novel) Midnight Sun is an unreleased companion novel to the book "Twilight" by author Stephenie Meyer. The work retells the events of "Twilight", but is written from the perspective of Edward Cullen instead of that of the series' usual narrating character Bella Swan. Meyer stated that "Twilight" was to be the only book from the series that she planned to rewrite from Edward's perspective. To give them a better feel of Edward's character, Meyer allowed Catherine Hardwicke, the director of the film adaptation of "Twilight", and Robert Pattinson, the actor playing Edward, to read some completed chapters
Edward Cullen and whose blood smells overwhelmingly sweet to him. Edward fights a growing attraction to Bella, but after saving her life on several occasions, he succumbs and eventually falls in love with her. Edward admits to Bella that he is a vampire, and that although he retains the physical body of a seventeen-year-old, he was actually born on June 20, 1901. His adoptive father, Carlisle Cullen, transformed him into a vampire in 1918 to prevent him from dying in the Spanish influenza epidemic in Chicago, Illinois by the request of Edward's mother who begged him to do whatever it took to