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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
My apologies in advance, but I am going to be a little bit negative for a few minutes. Not entirely negative though :) just a little bit.
‘The Host’ by Twilight series author Stephanie Meyer was a sham, an enjoyable sham, but a sham all the same. Touted as her first “Adult Novel” (meaning not young-adult), readers will be left a wanting… wanting the adult aspect that is referenced in all the marketing material.
This was an adult novel only in the fact that it did not have teenage vampires and Werewolves in it. The writing style was juvenile and repetitive, it was completely lacking in difficulty. At most points, it felt like i was reading a really large 7th grade reader. But that aside, I have read a number of YA novels I have enjoyed, having even gone back and reread novels from when I was a kid.
Essentially, the book is about the human race, enslaved by a parasitic force that enters the body and controls the brain. The body lives on, slaved to the parasite until death. Most of humanity is inundated by these creatures, but a few “Wild” humans survive.
Protagonist Melanie, is infected, and the secondary entity is having trouble keeping the human personality caged. Melanie fights for control and escapes to the wild to search out uninfected humans.
blah blah blah, The Puppetmasters, blah blah blah, The Faculty, blah blah blah, Red Dawn… Invasion of the Body Snatchers, V- the TV series… The Diary of Anne Frank (yup).
From an adult perspective, she managed to do what everyone else in Hollywood does, she ripped of a crap ton of ideas from other people, smashed them all together, polished the turd, and called it shiny and new. But people like this approach in their media, often referred to as “Crappy good”. As a result, this blatant translucent storytelling cannot be viewed as a fault, only a symptom of our current culture.
With that said.. I enjoyed it.. A lot.
Its not for everyone, and it is trash fiction, but so long as you do not expect more than a shallow afternoon distraction, you may enjoy it too.
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Side notes
Am I the only one that thinks the book cover looks like an eyeball coming out of some chicks armpit? Yeah yeah, I know, it is a nose, a really big, out of focus, overly airbrushed nose.. But it looks like an armpit to me. a giant vitreous fluid filled slightly hairy armpit.
Also, the Korean movie ‘The Host” is awesome. not related to this book in the slightest, and something that you should go watch. This was a great monster movie, not in the “rawr rawr scary” sense, but in the evolution of characters and fantastic cinematography sense.
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‘The Host’ by Twilight series author Stephanie Meyer was a sham, an enjoyable sham, but a sham all the same. Touted as her first “Adult Novel” (meaning not young-adult), readers will be left a wanting… wanting the adult aspect that is referenced in all the marketing material.
This was an adult novel only in the fact that it did not have teenage vampires and Werewolves in it. The writing style was juvenile and repetitive, it was completely lacking in difficulty. At most points, it felt like i was reading a really large 7th grade reader. But that aside, I have read a number of YA novels I have enjoyed, having even gone back and reread novels from when I was a kid.
Essentially, the book is about the human race, enslaved by a parasitic force that enters the body and controls the brain. The body lives on, slaved to the parasite until death. Most of humanity is inundated by these creatures, but a few “Wild” humans survive.
Protagonist Melanie, is infected, and the secondary entity is having trouble keeping the human personality caged. Melanie fights for control and escapes to the wild to search out uninfected humans.
blah blah blah, The Puppetmasters, blah blah blah, The Faculty, blah blah blah, Red Dawn… Invasion of the Body Snatchers, V- the TV series… The Diary of Anne Frank (yup).
From an adult perspective, she managed to do what everyone else in Hollywood does, she ripped of a crap ton of ideas from other people, smashed them all together, polished the turd, and called it shiny and new. But people like this approach in their media, often referred to as “Crappy good”. As a result, this blatant translucent storytelling cannot be viewed as a fault, only a symptom of our current culture.
With that said.. I enjoyed it.. A lot.
Its not for everyone, and it is trash fiction, but so long as you do not expect more than a shallow afternoon distraction, you may enjoy it too.
~~
Side notes
Am I the only one that thinks the book cover looks like an eyeball coming out of some chicks armpit? Yeah yeah, I know, it is a nose, a really big, out of focus, overly airbrushed nose.. But it looks like an armpit to me. a giant vitreous fluid filled slightly hairy armpit.
Also, the Korean movie ‘The Host” is awesome. not related to this book in the slightest, and something that you should go watch. This was a great monster movie, not in the “rawr rawr scary” sense, but in the evolution of characters and fantastic cinematography sense.
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Kinda embarrassed to say I read and actually enjoyed this book!
The Host is a very riveting read. Stephanie's unique writing style shine through.
DNF - Great idea for a story but the pacing and the characters left much to be desired.
slow-paced
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Spoiler
Since the weather is getting whoa-hoa-hoa-hoa-hoa again I'm going down a bit of a Smeyer hole for my own sick enjoyment. That being said: Smeyer PLEASE stop writing child-coded characters in relationships with full grown men. I'm begging. It's so weird. It happens like 6 times in this book. I get that it's the end of the world, and age gaps aren't as serious when there's only 37 of you in a hole, but fuck dude. If the world ended today I wouldn't shack up with a 16 year old, and I don't think most people would either. I cannot imagine the decline in civilization resulting in a worldwide decline of general morality.The Host was tiresome to get through, because there are sooooo many pages of repetitiveness. The main characters are borderline annoying most times. The setting gets stale. The main conflict gets incredibly stale about halfway through. Like, yeah, we get it. She's an alien. Everyone hates her. This didn't need to be (in my version, anyway) 600 pages worth of text. I ended up putting it down for like a month because I just. Couldn't.
However, the conclusion was cool. The last 300 or so pages were genuinely the most interesting part of the entire book, and I finished a bulk of the time I actually spent on this book during those pages because it was actually cool. This is such a cool concept, I wonder if I would have enjoyed it more if it was literally anyone other than Smeyer. I read that this is a book that might become a trilogy. I might look into reading that, even if reading this was just okay.
I don't think anything in this is technically a spoiler, but I'm going to hide it all anyway as I'm not the best at telling what is or isn't ground-breaking plot points for some people. This book was so predictable at times that I was guessing events 200 pages in advance, but I'm also just kinda like that. I don't know if it's representative of Smeyer at all. She is a good writer. This book was fine. I'm hypercritical. We knew that.
It could have been amazing, like 1984 level of awesome if someone else had written it and you know not made it all about a freakin love triangle.