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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The first half is slow, but once it picks up it’s hard to put down.
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
hopeful
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
Gelezen in oktober 2017:
Tellement beau, tellement émouvant. Cette histore me pris chaque fois par le coeur, je le garde dans mon âme. J'adore le processus de tous les liens entre eux et le changement dans leur vue du monde. Ce livre est un de mes histoires favories et chaque fois qui je le relis je tombe amoureuse en plus.
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It has been a long time since a book has consumed me as much as the Host did. I couldn't put it down. This is one of the few books that actually made me cry. It has moved me and somehow this book has become a part of my soul. This is a book that I need to read once every year, just because I enjoy it so much.
And to show you how addicted I am to this novel: I have a copy in Dutch, English and French.
Tellement beau, tellement émouvant. Cette histore me pris chaque fois par le coeur, je le garde dans mon âme. J'adore le processus de tous les liens entre eux et le changement dans leur vue du monde. Ce livre est un de mes histoires favories et chaque fois qui je le relis je tombe amoureuse en plus.
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It has been a long time since a book has consumed me as much as the Host did. I couldn't put it down. This is one of the few books that actually made me cry. It has moved me and somehow this book has become a part of my soul. This is a book that I need to read once every year, just because I enjoy it so much.
And to show you how addicted I am to this novel: I have a copy in Dutch, English and French.
Reread 2023
This remains one of my most favorite and treasured novels
This remains one of my most favorite and treasured novels
I can't really say that this in a new idea, "parasites" taking over a hosts body. Anyone watch the Stargate movie or the TV show? Pretty much the same concept. I do like a little Sci-Fi (hence the Stargate comment) and I did enjoy reading this book. It did have it's sappy and cheesy parts but I think Twilight was worse.
I did like the different perspectives of the humans and the aliens and how those perspectives had changed throughout the course of the book. There were a few things to think about. I enjoyed reading it and like all Stephenie Meyer books, you can probably figure out the ending.
I did like the different perspectives of the humans and the aliens and how those perspectives had changed throughout the course of the book. There were a few things to think about. I enjoyed reading it and like all Stephenie Meyer books, you can probably figure out the ending.
It was an interesting book although I think Stephenie Meyer always cops out and makes the "easy" choice.
I've had this book on my Kindle for a while, and got around to reading it this past week. I had pretty low expectations going in, thanks to Twilight, and I was pleasantly surprised by the improvement in this book over that series. There are some neat concepts in here, as well as likeable main characters with some actual development. I really wish that GR allowed half-star markings, as this is a solid 3.5 star book, but it's better than 3 so I'm rounding up to 4.
As can be gleaned from the book's copy, Melanie is a human whose body has been taken over by a parasite from another species, known as Wanderer. This other species lives many lives inside other bodies on a range of worlds, being bodily installed into the host's brain where they then take over. This led to an interesting concept that caught my brain, even as it was likely a throwaway line, something along the lines of "humans were hard to tell apart, as they had similar skin and eye colors and even kept their features all in the same place." That is a neat concept and I wish it had been more than a single line at the beginning of the book.
The negatives of the book were that it's written from a dual viewpoint of which one is a 17yo girl whose lover is an older man (not again). However, most of the vapid and damaging screed present in Twilight is missing, and the reasoning is relatively sound, so I let it go. The much older viewpoint of Wanderer balances out the young and impetuous Melanie quite nicely, and I found their interactions to be the highlight of the novel.
This is worth the read as a light sci-fi novel with an interesting premise and some great stories about other worlds. It's definitely a step up and improvement from the author's original books, and I enjoyed reading this one a lot although it likely won't be on the re-read list any time soon.
As can be gleaned from the book's copy, Melanie is a human whose body has been taken over by a parasite from another species, known as Wanderer. This other species lives many lives inside other bodies on a range of worlds, being bodily installed into the host's brain where they then take over. This led to an interesting concept that caught my brain, even as it was likely a throwaway line, something along the lines of "humans were hard to tell apart, as they had similar skin and eye colors and even kept their features all in the same place." That is a neat concept and I wish it had been more than a single line at the beginning of the book.
The negatives of the book were that it's written from a dual viewpoint of which one is a 17yo girl whose lover is an older man (not again). However, most of the vapid and damaging screed present in Twilight is missing, and the reasoning is relatively sound, so I let it go. The much older viewpoint of Wanderer balances out the young and impetuous Melanie quite nicely, and I found their interactions to be the highlight of the novel.
This is worth the read as a light sci-fi novel with an interesting premise and some great stories about other worlds. It's definitely a step up and improvement from the author's original books, and I enjoyed reading this one a lot although it likely won't be on the re-read list any time soon.