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The Host

Stephenie Meyer

3.71 AVERAGE

mamabob414's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

lrjohnson13's review against another edition

5.0

A Write to Review

I was completely turned off when I first started reading this book then I hit a point in the story and I couldn't stop reading. It was slow and weird to start off with but once you get through a couple of chapters it is more than worth the slight wait. The whole concept of this book was interesting to me and Stephanie Meyer's ended up pulling it off really well in the end. I do hope she continues on with the story.

gameofswift's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lyx_al's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense

grumpiimouse's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ktklaa45's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

ryinwonderland's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It’s definitely got some Stephanie Meyerisms in there, and it’s probably 200 pages too long, but the story is cool.

Parasite aliens taking over human forms and creating a better life, but some humans don’t want that. This is from the perspective of one of those parasites, who finds herself in the company of humans, and who never lets her original human host disappear. There’s chosen family and lots of conflict and lots of hesitation and lots of love.