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Book Reviews of The Host: A Novel
Book Review: A Romantic Twist on Alien Body-Snatchers
Summary: 5 Stars
Earth has been invaded by alien life-forms. These parasitic aliens are called Souls and live in what they consider to be a peace-loving unity, similar to the way bees live in a hive together. They require Hosts in order to survive. The centipede-like body is inserted into the Hosts brain by the Healers, then the alien takes control of all functions of that body as its own and the original occupant disappears. The Souls chose to take over Earth when they noticed the violent and barbaric tendencies of the human race. They wanted to eradicate the evil and destructive ways that the humans were destroying their own planet. They wanted to bring peace back to Earth, but the Souls could not foresee one human entity, Melanie, fighting back to gain control over her body that the alien, Wanderer (Wanda), had stole.
When Wanderer (Wanda) came to Earth and was implanted into her human Host, she had no clue as what this planet would be like. She had never had a Host that had such strong emotions and desires before. She never questioned what happened to any of the Host's original occupants that was their before her, until now. When Wanda started to receive strong, emotional images from her Host's (Melanie) memories, she tried to resist and force her into disappearing, like all the rest of her Host's she had lived in before on different planets. Melanie was extremely strong-willed, determined and frantic to get her messages across and refused to disappear. Wanda had only one choice left and it was to discard this Hosts body as faulty and acquire another one. Out of desperation, Melanie released the images she was protecting from this alien, of her younger brother, Jamie and her lover, Jared. Wanda felt the desire and love Melanie had for them, as her own, and yearned to find and protect them. Melanie remembered a secret hideout in the desert that her crazy Uncle Jeb had claimed, just incase the end of the world came. She persuaded Wanda to search for the location. After almost dying of exhaustion, hunger and thirst, a group of human rebels found her and took her prisoner back to their underground cave.
Wanda is reunited with Jamie and Jared, but even though Jamie accepts Wanda for who and what she is, Jared is enraged with hate for the alien that stole his lover's body. Wanda has to prove to them that she does not want to cause any humans harm and that Melanie is still alive inside her. With few human friends at her side that trust her, she has to find out a way to control Melanie's desire for Jared, her personal feelings for Ian (her human companion and bodyguard), give hope back to the world for the human race to survive and deal with the alien Seeker that has been tracking her from the beginning.
THE HOST is the best novel by far that I have read and will bind the reader emotionally to the pages until the end. Stephenie Meyer is a wonderful, vivid and intriguing writer. THE HOST is a beautiful and romantic love story that will take the reader above the stars and into a different universe.
Stephenie Meyer is the author of the bestselling Twilight series. She lives in Arizona with her husband and three young sons. To recieve more information about her, visit her website [...]
Book Review: A Sci fi book I liked!
Summary: 4 Stars
This book started out slowly but picked up in the middle and then I was hooked! I am not a big science fiction fan but I ended up loving this book. I really cared about the characters. The Twilight books are some of my favorites but this book stands on its own right.Book Review: A Science Fiction Novel for People Who HATE Science Fiction
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, first let me say that I don't like science fiction. I don't read science fiction. I don't read books about aliens. I've never read a book about an alien. I wasn't even going to read this book even though I really like Stephenie Meyer. BUT, after seeing the fabulous reviews I decided I would give this behemoth of a sci-fi book a chance.
Well, let me tell you that I read this book in a little under two days which is pretty extraordinary for me since I don't have a lot of free reading time. It is fabulous and breathtaking. Stephenie Meyer has this incredible way of explaining what it is to be human. She shows how disgusting and horrible the human race can be, she show how hard it is, how we suffer, how love pains us, BUT she also shows the beauty and magnificence of the human race as well.
All you who do not read books about aliens...read this one. That's all I have to say...
Book Review: A Snore
Summary: 1 Stars
I read the Twilight series last year, and I really enjoyed reading those books. They were easy to read and really entertaining. I was looking forward to reading The Host because that series. The books were really engaging and fun to read. The Host is the polar opposite. I wasn't expecting a great work of literature, but I did expect to be entertained. The only interesting thing about this book is that it has managed to make an alien invasion and the prospect of any life outside of our planet seem incredibly dull. I got halfway through this book because I was trying to give it a fair chance, but I just can't read any more of this thing. Mowing my lawn with scissors every week would be more interesting than reading this book.Book Review: A Study in What It Means To Be Human
Summary: 5 Stars
"There are several things a person should know about this book. First of all, it is not `Twilight'. While there is romance suffused throughout the pages, it is not the teenager romance of Meyer's `Twilight' series that may have turned away a few adults. I say `may' due to the fact Meyer's writing has managed to draw a significant adult crowd regardless. "The Host" is a story of adults. It contains no vampires, no werewolves, no mythical, supernatural elements dating back thousands of years. Yes, there are aliens, but the aliens are merely a vehicle Meyer successfully employs to explore the theme of this incredible tale: the essence of humanity. How better to do so than from the vantage point of someone who is not? Take, for example, the existence of the two (Melanie and Wanderer) within the one body. Who among us has not struggled with the two voices, one telling us to go this way, the other saying the other? `The Host' is a novel study in what it means to be human."