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A review by victoriabooksaga
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
4.0
"It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the things you do with it. You are beautiful."
This has been a comfort read of mine since its 2008 publication.
✨ Synopsis (My Version)
Human survivor Melanie is trapped by the very "peace loving" aliens she despises just as her future with her main man was finally within sight. She'll have to find a way to keep her private memories private and keep her sanity intact while having no outside control of her faculties.
Wanderer is a world conquering alien unique and wholly confusing to her kind. While most stop at one or two worlds, Earth is the eighth planet and people Wanderer has inhabited. And if that stinkin' Seeker doesn't stop breathing down her neck and giving her looks, she will literally explode, or at least Melanie would like her to.
So slap a fake smile on your face, dive through memories put to dreams, and wander the desert in search of salvation... or your doom.
In this heartwrenching and beautiful NA romantic science fiction book, Stephanie Meyer weaves her most well written story conceived as she drove through the desert, imagining a future world and love lost and found in its sands.
✨ Featuring:
Unique not-a-love-triangle-but-triangle-adjacent relationships
Tentative allies turned besties/found family
Body Snatcher x Body Snatched friendship
Lover who could have been vs. Lover who could never be
Merged identity
Beautiful soft but gripping sci-fi world building
Hunter becomes the hunted (times two)
Humans resisting juxtaposed with fading humans
"Peaceful" and quiet worldwide take over
Strength in the quiet but fierce
Heartbreaking and desperate but absolutely BEAUTIFUL meet-cute
Enemies to reluctant allies to friends to lovers
This has been a comfort read of mine since its 2008 publication.
✨ Synopsis (My Version)
Human survivor Melanie is trapped by the very "peace loving" aliens she despises just as her future with her main man was finally within sight. She'll have to find a way to keep her private memories private and keep her sanity intact while having no outside control of her faculties.
Wanderer is a world conquering alien unique and wholly confusing to her kind. While most stop at one or two worlds, Earth is the eighth planet and people Wanderer has inhabited. And if that stinkin' Seeker doesn't stop breathing down her neck and giving her looks, she will literally explode, or at least Melanie would like her to.
So slap a fake smile on your face, dive through memories put to dreams, and wander the desert in search of salvation... or your doom.
In this heartwrenching and beautiful NA romantic science fiction book, Stephanie Meyer weaves her most well written story conceived as she drove through the desert, imagining a future world and love lost and found in its sands.
✨ Featuring:
Unique not-a-love-triangle-but-triangle-adjacent relationships
Tentative allies turned besties/found family
Body Snatcher x Body Snatched friendship
Lover who could have been vs. Lover who could never be
Merged identity
Beautiful soft but gripping sci-fi world building
Hunter becomes the hunted (times two)
Humans resisting juxtaposed with fading humans
"Peaceful" and quiet worldwide take over
Strength in the quiet but fierce
Heartbreaking and desperate but absolutely BEAUTIFUL meet-cute
Enemies to reluctant allies to friends to lovers