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The Host by Stephenie Meyer

5 reviews

autumnwitch14's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Colonisation, Genocide, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: War, Cancer, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, and Child death

Minor: Alcohol, Self harm, Gun violence, Mental illness, Body shaming, Suicide, Torture, Dysphoria, Grief, and Bullying

depmythmoon's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

“Love simply is where it is.” (pg. 44)

“You never know how much time you’ll have.” (pg. 80)

“Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.” (pg. 141)

This story follows our (2) main character(s) Wanderer/Wanda and Melanie. Wanda is a species called “souls” who require a host species for them to live. Wanda’s special because she’s lived on more planets than most other souls all the way back to The Origin, which is like their home planet. They have mostly invaded Earth, but there are some rebel groups and lone humans that remain, which is where Mel comes in. Her body is captured and given to Wanda, but the procedure doesn’t go as planned. We follow them and see the struggle of which alien will win out over the other; who will get to keep the body?

This book really felt like a blast to the past, when Twilight and Divergent were still popular. It is just the kind of story that younger me would have eaten up and developed an obsession with similar to the chokehold Twilight had me in as a kid. I’m kind of glad I didn’t read it at that time because I wouldn’t have had any rest from Wattpad and Fanfiction dot net. I also really liked Wanda as a character, overly self-sacrificing nature aside. This story does a good job at showing how complex—and sometimes hypocritical—we can be as humans as well as the intensity and illogical ways of love. 

Now, my biggest gripe with this story has got to be the age gaps, lying about ages, and the abuse. Of course, you expect there to be some hostility when there’s an alien parading around in the body that belongs to the love of your life, but there are some things you just don’t do. Strike 1 was the fact that they’re 17 and 26 when they meet (I get there are some age gaps like this in real life, but tell me what a 17 y/o could offer to a 26 y/o?? End of the world be damned.) Strike 2 was the way Wanda was treated and collecting bruises and injuries like they were infinity stones just because she’s an alien. Strike 3 was the second underage relationship where the girl happily lies about turning 18 just so her man doesn’t feel guilty… and she’s proud of it. She’s not even 17 technically because her birthday was coming up and she added a year. That just ruined it for me cause there really is no reason Ms. Meyer couldn’t have made them AT LEAST 18 or even 21. Yuck.

I’m still going to watch the movie to see what was changed (their ages, hopefully) and what was kept. I’m genuinely kind of bummed that I can’t fully see where this story goes due to Ms. Meyer shifting her focus to the Twilight franchise, but the ending and epilogue were a decent stopping point if she chose not to go further. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Medical content, Physical abuse, Suicide, War, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Kidnapping

Minor: Toxic relationship

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Suicide attempt, Kidnapping, Suicide, Child death, Medical content, War, Violence, Blood, Terminal illness, Gore, Xenophobia, and Confinement

Minor: Alcohol, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Colonisation

refrejarator's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

One of my favourite romances at the moment - tense and mysterious in all the right places, and a tear-jerking, emotional whirlwind. Plus the love triangles are so fun, and have an interesting dynamic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Minor: Cancer, Confinement, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Gun violence, Gore, War, Self harm, Medical content, Alcohol, and Death

eamily's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Violence, Medical content, Blood, Confinement, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Self harm, Cancer, Dysphoria, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Genocide

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, Torture, Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Vomit, War, and Drug use

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood