In a press release, Meyer said she hopes the book gives readers a chance to “live in an imaginary world for a while. I hope this book gives my readers a little pleasure to anticipate and, if it arrives, a chance to live in an imaginary world for a while,” she said. “I can’t express how much I appreciate the patience of my readers, and their support over the years it took to finish Midnight Sun.”

In 2008, Meyer released a partial draft of the story’s first chapter called “First Sight” on her website after wondering what the first chapter of Twilight would have been like if it was told from Edward’s perspective. “There is so much more to his side of the story than there is to Bella’s in that first chapter,” Meyer wrote on her website at the time. “His side of Bella’s first day at Forks High School is a hundred times more exciting than her own.”

Midnight Sun is set to release on August 4, 2020.

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