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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
Infinitely better than any of the Twilight books (all of which I've read and have rated as 'it was ok'.) This has great insight into humanity and our inner struggle. The love "triangle" is believable and compelling. I hope that Twilight readers will chance to read this and realize that there's more to literature than sparkly vampires and annoying heroines.
**May 2013-time for a re-read on the NOOK!**
6/2013-I had forgotten how much I really enjoy this book! It shows that Ms Meyer IS a fine author, with the help of a good editor. The characters are interesting, there is depth to the primary characters. She has created a world i want to know more about. And I really want to know more about the "souls" and their home world and how they evolved as they did. can't wait for the next book!
I found this to be a very interesting story (though I love Sci-fi) but it makes you really think about what it means to be human, what makes "you" really "you".
6/2013-I had forgotten how much I really enjoy this book! It shows that Ms Meyer IS a fine author, with the help of a good editor. The characters are interesting, there is depth to the primary characters. She has created a world i want to know more about. And I really want to know more about the "souls" and their home world and how they evolved as they did. can't wait for the next book!
I found this to be a very interesting story (though I love Sci-fi) but it makes you really think about what it means to be human, what makes "you" really "you".
FABulous beach read if you loved anything about the Twilight series
What did I think? I never really eclipsed page seventy five, it's sad to say, I flew through the twilight series wayyy before the hype (in which I started to deny I read them...sheep) and this one missed for me. . I just couldn't get hooked, sure, I bought it and one day I could crack it open, but I suppose my kindle would have to be empty and my shelves of books vanish.
I liked that I was able to feel for both sides of the story. I couldn't decide who I wanted to "win". The entire time that I was reading I was wondering how this book could possibly end in a satisfactory manner. I couldn't come up with anything that was going to make me happy. Luckily, Stephenie was able to.
SUCH a good book, it gets me every time I read it.
When The Host by Stephanie Meyer arrived and I discovered that it is science fiction and over 600 pages long, I wondered what I had gotten myself into. I quickly found out there was no need to be worried. Even though this book is science fiction, it’s not technical, filled with unfamiliar words or “way out” there. For me, it was a great story about relationships and accepting others for who they are on the inside rather than for what they look like on the outside. I found this book to be engaging and thought provoking. This is my first experience with Stephanie Meyer’s work and if her other books are like this, I can see why they sell so well – she’s a great storyteller. You really get your money’s worth with this book! An excerpt of The Host is available on Stephanie Meyer’s website.
I really enjoyed this book. Stephenie Meyer really knows how to write a long book! By the end I couldn't read fast enough.
The Host, Meyer's "first book for adults" Starts with an excellent premise: Planet earth has been 'conquered' by souls. Semi-etherial beings that effectively become the creature they inhabit, erasing the orignial occupant. The souls have an enigmatic orignal, dubious morality, and unfortunately for them- stupid names.
The story is told by the host that got away, the woman whose personality was too strong to allow herself to be erased by the incoming soul. Its all going pretty well, as we listen to the host and the soul duke it out in their shared head.
Then things get a bit too lazy. After a few melodramtic memories are shared, suddenly the host and the soul are totally like BFF, and worst of all share the same goals. Seriously why would Meyer ruin this opportunity to have an awesome situation where people within the one body ACTUALLY CAME INTO CONFLICT.
Oh sure they fall for different men (what is that a love sqaure minus one body?) but when the f***ing earth is being taken over by aliens do we really want to be reading about this issue?
The book flounders under our dual-personality protaganist who is a weakling, for most of the first pages they sit back and wait for the peole around them to save them and drive the plot? forward.
The other characters are shallow to a fault, they act more like children on a camp out than the last surviving humans on earth. Especially 'Jeb' the conspiracy theory uncle, who comically bows at one point, and after putting one of their own on trial for attempted murder, abruptly suggests a game of soccer. (Look Stephanie Meyer, Vampire baseball wasn't cool, alien soccer isn't any better!)
The message of the novel is a little sloppy and clumsily presented (is the theme that love is merely a biological process attached to the body, or that love transends all that, or simply that as long as you' re in love who cares?) Also for a Scifi epic, The Host is too long for its lack of depth, there simply isn't the material to warrant 600 pages.
After all the 'soul' searching (that leve of pun is about on par with the humour in The Host) The ending seems hypocritical, but whatever, rant over.
The story is told by the host that got away, the woman whose personality was too strong to allow herself to be erased by the incoming soul. Its all going pretty well, as we listen to the host and the soul duke it out in their shared head.
Then things get a bit too lazy. After a few melodramtic memories are shared, suddenly the host and the soul are totally like BFF, and worst of all share the same goals. Seriously why would Meyer ruin this opportunity to have an awesome situation where people within the one body ACTUALLY CAME INTO CONFLICT.
Oh sure they fall for different men (what is that a love sqaure minus one body?) but when the f***ing earth is being taken over by aliens do we really want to be reading about this issue?
The book flounders under our dual-personality protaganist who is a weakling, for most of the first pages they sit back and wait for the peole around them to save them and drive the plot? forward.
The other characters are shallow to a fault, they act more like children on a camp out than the last surviving humans on earth. Especially 'Jeb' the conspiracy theory uncle, who comically bows at one point, and after putting one of their own on trial for attempted murder, abruptly suggests a game of soccer. (Look Stephanie Meyer, Vampire baseball wasn't cool, alien soccer isn't any better!)
The message of the novel is a little sloppy and clumsily presented (is the theme that love is merely a biological process attached to the body, or that love transends all that, or simply that as long as you' re in love who cares?) Also for a Scifi epic, The Host is too long for its lack of depth, there simply isn't the material to warrant 600 pages.
After all the 'soul' searching (that leve of pun is about on par with the humour in The Host) The ending seems hypocritical, but whatever, rant over.
I really enjoyed this book. I was skeptical at first because a friend said she didn't really like the book. She had to re start the book a few times, and eventually finished it. She thought it was really weird. So, I didn't intend to read it. However, after seeing the preview for the movie, I wanted to give it a try. It sucked me in right away and I read it super fast. And I want to read it over and over. I hope Stephenie Meyer makes sequels for this book. It is written way different than Twilight was. It is hard to explain. It is a little of a love story with kind of a love triangle/square as there are 3 bodies, but 4 people. (You will understand when you read it). I did think the book was weird, but a good weird, because it was so different. I can not wait for the movie and I hope it doesn't disappoint me!