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Amazon Sales Rank: 44
Publication Date: 2008-05-06
Release Date: 2008-05-06
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 0316068047
Type: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 624
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The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake.
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.
Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, 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.
Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts 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 yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.
Featuring what may be the first love triangle involving only two bodies, THE HOST is a riveting and unforgettable novel that will bring a vast new readership to one of the most compelling writers of our time.
Average Rating: 
Review: 2008-11-20
Horrid
I have never taken the time to write a review before but the utter awfulness of this book inspired me. I thoroughly enjoyed the Twilight series but had to force myself to the end of this book in hopes that something would redeem it. Could not believe the rating on Amazon, of all my friends not one person would recommend this book!
Review: 2008-11-18
Boring
As I had read Meyer's Twilight Saga, I wanted to read her first novel for adults to see how different it was to her other three novels. Also the plot of The Host seemed to be very exciting and unusual. To me, the novel, however, turned out to be very boring. When I read Twilight, I was truly fascinated by the story and the easy read, so that of course I also read New Moon and Eclipse. But already New Moon showed that Meyer was trying to change her writing style from a simple one to a more sophisticated language style, which unfortunately did not work out. I was also disappointed with the way in which she developed the exciting love between Edward and Bella. To me, it looked like that she could not come up with better ideas (other than werewolves and Bella being comforted by Jake) to develop her story further. The Host appears to fall into that category that she started approaching with New Moon and Eclipse: namely that she tried to use a more sophisticated language (without managing to do so) and to have a great story but no ideas of how to develop a gripping plot. I have to admit that I just read 60 pages. I gave the book one chance after another, but boredom stayed with me right from the beginning. Before giving it up completely, I looked through the book a bit more and took a look especially at the last couple of pages, but they seemed to be as boring as the ones I had read. Meyer uses a lot of direct speech, which I do not like as much anyway, and does not really spend time on descriptions. Basically, those 60 pages that I read, consisted of dialogs between the Wanderer (which is the alien soul) and Melanie (which is the human body) or the Wanderer and others of his kind. Although it is true that through the dialogs, the reader finds out about the figures' personalities and about Melanie's brother and a guy she fell in love with, everything happens very slowly, so that I got the feeling that Meyer just wanted to fill her pages. I have given up on the book and I begin to think that especially Twilight was such a great book because of that fascinating plot and the excitement such an unusual and dangerous love causes. But I fear that The Host is the complete opposite and neither fascinating nor exciting.
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Amazon List Price: $25.99
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