The Host

This is BY FAR my favorite book of Stephenie Meyer's. It didn't even feel like it was written by the same person who wrote Twilight. I loved the originality of this book. My favorite part is the relationships between Wanda and the other characters, from how distant and cold, to when they grew to love her and accept her. I havent read a book this large in a long time, either, and it was not hard to finish. If Stephenie Meyer wrote more books like this, I'd definitely read them.

Chagrin chagrin chagrin lol. I really liked the concept but there were loopholes here and there. I didn't like the writing style much and some parts were very draggy. It was also choppy for all the wrong reasons.

Just not my cup of tea for a book. Decent but not for me.

I found this book to be I pretty good read. I really enjoyed her story telling and I loved learning about Wanderers race and how everything works in their world. She did an amazing job the aliens and made them seem real.

I think my favorite character through the story was either Jeb or Melanie just because I liked their attetudes and how honest they were throughout the book.


Although the book has some faults, i agree with what others say, their is a a lot of sappy love in this. But other than that i think it was worth the read.

I think the conclusion was a good one as well and i did enjoy the bonus chapter, I was like i wanted to see what happened in the time frame of where that extra chapter takes place and i wont ruin it for ya guys.

This is first review and i hope it helps some people!

Go ahead, judge me.

It was entertaining!

Very different feel from the twilight books. This is a faintly science fiction book. It is an invation of the body snatchers story (or at least as much as the Twilight books were vampire books).

There is a light romance going on. It is sort of like the Robert A. Heinlein book “I Will Fear No Evil”, in that there are two characters inside the brain that have lots of conversations. The sexuality is much more tame than in Twilight.

I would recommend it as long as you like some science fiction.

A longer review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/the-host-by-stephanie-mayer/

I fully expected to not like this book at all, first it really isn't the type of book I usually would read and my love affair with Stephenie Myer ended with that joke she called Breaking Dawn, in fact the only reason I grabbed it was because I saw it on the shelf at the library and figured “what the heck”. I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised, it took me about 100 pages to get into it, but after that I finished all 600 pages in two days! I'm glad took the time to read it.

Great! Not since Joss Whedon has a writer so successfully combined genre fiction with the exploration of identity and what it means to be a monster (or a hero), an alien or a human. Plus a hopeless and beautiful love quadrangle!

Man, I miss Buffy.

I could not even finish this. I couldn't even get past the first hundred pages, and I made it through the entire Twilight series. There is absolutely nothing engaging, nothing to endear you to the characters. Based on the plot, I was originally very intrigued by the concept of this story, but Stephenie Meyer's anemic writing ability can't bring it to any semblance of life. A complete waste of paper, don't even bother.

This is a great book. Seriously. But I wish Stephenie Meyer would change her plotlines a little bit. And that she would be able to write a good, unexpected ending. Really, I saw what was going to happen to the whole Wanda/Mel thing about 400 pages in. Most of what happened was expected, only the whole Jamie getting sick, Walter and Wes dying thing(s). And, like I said, her plotlines are kind of similar, in the romance-y part. The two-guys loving the same girl thing. The self-sacrificing girl thing. The way all her characters seem to be pretty/beautiful. It just...annoys me when I think about it, but I didn't think about most of those things when I was reading t... And it is a great book. I read all 600 and something pages in one night(I had to start over because I forgot about for a while).

It took me a while to get into this book, I'm not a big fan of aliens, but wow once I got through the beginning- wow... great book. loved it... Not crazy about the ending... but for the most part it was good.
Although a little too much romance for my liking.

Surprisingly much better than the Twilight series. I hope to see more with these characters in the future.