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The Host

Stephenie Meyer

3.71 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Read ten times and will read again

Read it back in like 2011. Better than twilight
adventurous challenging funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
adventurous emotional reflective 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: Complicated

This is in my top 10 favorite books of all time and I reread it at least a couple times a year.

Is it an unproblematic literary masterpiece? No. Does it make me smile and cry and seethe in anger and think about the nature of humanity? Yes.

So i decided to give Stephenie Meyer a second chance after the Twilight Saga and picked up this book...WOW! Absolutely enthralling book, i couldn't put it down! A little confusing in the beginning in my opinion, but after page 50 or so i fell in love. I mean, you gotta have one of those sappy love stories to read every once in a while right?! :)
mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Love/hate relationship with this, but became emotionally involved by the end which is always a good sign.

Romantic sci-fi. Meyer's best so far.

Summary: Wanderer (Wanda), a parasitic being, is implanted into a human host named Melanie. Time passes by and these two beings are trying to exist in one body.

Stephenie Meyer's writing style is of course revolving around romantic themes. Looking beyond that, the book looks into the value of human life in comparison to other beings in the universe (mostly these parasitic kinds). Humans are flawed beings, governed by feelings of selfishness but the greatest force of any species is the need to survive.