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 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  683 reviews
Sales Rank: 47
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 624
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.6 x 2.1
ISBN: 0316068047
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780316068048
ASIN: 0316068047
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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 Great Stephenie! May 22, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Stephenie Meyer is one of the great writers of this time. She is able to keep a non Sci-Fi fan on the edge of their seat with this futuristic look at the world. Wanderer, Jamie and Jared are a great treat in this book. I would recommend this book to any fan of the Twilight series. It is another shining example of Stephenie's talent to weave a web with words.
Amazing book-as good as Harry Potter! May 22, 2008
Since there are so many better reviews out there, I'll be brief. First of all, I LOVED The Host. To say this is the most thrilling, emotional, and readable story would be an understatement. I consider myself to be a hard-to-please reader who gets bored after 100 pages of any book. This book is completely different. I actually felt for the characters, especially Wanda, the unconventional protagonist of the story. The pacing of the story is perfect, due to Meyer's great storytelling ability. For her first adult book, Meyer does quite well. The souls have a deep, complex background, and she has a believable post-invasion human world.
What makes the Host so compelling is that Meyer doesn't do a load of explaining. She simply constructs an action-packed, emotional story on an alien and her host body, Melanie. That's not to say that this is primarily an action, sci-fi story. It's more or less a story about very complex relationships and how Wanda, the alien soul, deals with such relationships. That's what makes this such a great book. There's no impossible teen romances with overly-beautiful people. This is a deep story about a gentle alien learning about humanity, cruel and violent as they are.
As a side note, I really enjoyed the romantic part of the novel. It isn't like Twilight where the lovers feel their love is "fate". It's a believable love story, and I still get the shivers thinking about it.
There's a reason why Meyer is likened to J. K. Rowling. Even though it's a little more than 600 pages, the book will seem too short. Buy the Host, and you will thank yourself when you read it.
No Cullens To Be Found Here May 22, 2008
I admit, I was a bit biased when I bought this novel. I'm in love with the "Twilight" series--who isn't nowadays?--and admire her uncanny writing ability to no end. So when I heard she had written an adult novel, I was immediately interested.
As she describes it, the novel is "science fiction for those who don't like science fiction". And though I do enjoy a good sci-fi as long as it's well-executed, I was a bit wary at first when beginning the novel. I was afraid her skill at writing vampire-fantasy romance might not translate into science fiction. At first, you read many names and facts about "souls" and whatnot that can be, at first, just a bit confusing.
But let me assure you, it's well worth your time to continue on. Stephenie manages to pull off an alien's perspective with seemingly effortless success--very few writers can pull off a POV where it's "our" body or "we gasped", but she does it with perfection. As can be expected, her prose is beautiful, but also as real as though Wanderer were talking to you about her story.
Perhaps because it's so foreign to Wanderer, emotions are captured wonderfully and heartbreakingly in this novel. I have yet to read another novel where anger, jealousy, despair, and consignment to fate are described as acurately or as sympathetically--you feel her anger, and grieve with her when she grives. It's the essential ability any writer worth their salt must have, but Stephenie takes that and makes it her own. I stayed up far past midnight many nights, wrapped up in the book and quite reluctant to put it down. There were also several occasions where I had to stop reading to wipe my eyes, which for me isn't a very common thing. You grow to love the characters as much as Wanderer (and Melanie) do--it's small wonder you become so heavily involved into the story.
Don't you love it when a book has you ravenous for more? "The Host" is the type of novel that'll leave you craving more, but upon completion, you'll want to go right back and re-read everything. For there are many revelations in the story that make you want to re-read the novel to look into them more!
For anyone who loves Stephenie Meyer, this book does not disappoint (unless you're adament against not having Edward Cullen in here)! And even if you're not an establish fan of hers, "The Host" is sure to convert you. :)
Amazing!! May 22, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book was truly amazing. Stephenie Meyer is truly the most talented author there has ever been!
 The body snatcher has a conscience May 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoyed Meyer's "Twlight" books and looked forward to reading "The Host". I was initially disappointed because the first 100 pages of this 600 page book, read like a over recycled version of the body snatchers. The tides turned and I started enjoying myself. The book is in the perspective of a alien, who becomes a symbiotic organism with a human. I felt myself empathizing with the alien and their culture. "The Host" was a good read despite its need for editing. It was quite different from Meyer's previous works but a fun adventure to read.
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