


“I am very excited to finally, finally announce the release of Midnight Sun on 4 August,” Meyer said, in a prerecorded video broadcast on Good Morning America. The website immediately crashed when the countdown ended, as her army of fans attempted to find out what was going on, with some speculating that the Volturi, the army of evil vampires from the Twilight saga, were to blame. Midnight Sun is set to be released on August 8.Meyer, one of the bestselling authors in the world, has been trailing an announcement on her website since last week, with a timer counting down to Monday’s announcement. I think it might be an Edward that’s a lot different than that."įans can already pre-order the book. I don’t know if it will be the Edward that they imagined. I think people are not going to maybe have anticipated exactly what Edward was thinking and doing when he wasn’t onscreen, so to speak. "The stakes are way higher from perspective. "It’s definitely darker, and I would say more desperate," she said. In a new interview with USA Today, Stephenie says that the book is a lot darker than the first.

Some fans even managed to figure out the announcement early with some sleuthing.įans who were trying to access Stephenie's website were met with constant crashing as they tried to see what the news was about. Many fans were speculating that Stephenie was going to release the new book after a countdown was posted on her website. The book has been years in the making as it was originally set to be released years ago, but a major leak had put the project on pause. The book is a companion to the first novel in the series and will follow Edward's point of view of everything that went down in Twilight.

Hopefully this book can be a distraction from the real world," Stephenie said while appearing on Good Morning America. 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.
