The Host - Stephanie Meyer

The Host by Stephanie Meyer

Date Released: May 6th 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 619 pages
Date Read: 2 years ago
Format: Hardcover
Source: Walmart........

Summary:

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact and continue their lives apparently unchanged. Most of humanity has succumbed.
When Melanie, one of the few remaining "wild" humans, is captured, she is certain it is her end. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, was warned about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the glut of senses, the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.
Wanderer probes Melanie's thoughts, hoping to discover the whereabouts of the remaining human resistance. Instead, Melanie fills Wanderer's mind with visions of the man Melanie loves - Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she has been tasked with exposing. When outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off on a dangerous and uncertain search for the man they both love.

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My Review:

I had to re-read the 1st chapter like 5 times, and still I didn’t understood. Halfway around the book I went back and re-read it again and I was like: OoOh!! Duh. When I tried to explain what the story was about to someone I always ended up saying a lot of nonsense and never actually saying what the book was about, because, honestly it’s a complicated storyline; which is part of why I loved it so much, I was able to dive into the story and I never lost track of things or was like ‘whaaaaat?’ Well, aside from Chapter 1 at least ^^

I also think that this books has a lot of important lessons and meaning. Though I’m the kind of girl that thinks all books have layers and hidden messages, even when my mom tells me I need to go get groceries I think there’s this life changing meaning behind her words; so no big surprise to find meaning behind Meyer’s words, but this is one of the best plots I’ve read and that has lots of meaning ;)

BUT, yeah, there’s always a but. The But here is this: The Characters. They were not flat, not boring, not unlikable or unrelatable. Then what’s the problem? Lack of creativity. They seemed to come straight out of Twilight. Wanda – Bella. Melanie – Rosalie. Jared – Edward. Jamie –Jacob. And so on a Lot of the characters resembled the one’s in Twilight, it’s like Meyer thought about a whole new plot and used all of her creativity in it that she had no time or imagination left for more original characters :/

All in all it was a great story, I don’t know if I like it more than Twilight to be honest, I read both a while back so I’m not sure, maybe if you count both books [Twilight and The Host] as stand-alone books I’ll go for Twilight, though counting Twilight for what it is – A Series – I would go for The Host. The Host is also going to be a series but, its been 4 years since the host came out and Meyer hasn’t given updates on the sequel. Only Alice knows when she’ll publish it.

A Really Good Book :) Oh! and My FAVORITE part is: Chapter56. Page 570. Heartbreaking and just... Sigh

  "It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful."

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A Really Good Book. One of the best plots I’ve read and with lots of meaning. Meyer's piece will not disappoint.