REVIEW: The Host

The Host, by Stephenie Meyer, Hachette Book Group USA,

$25.99, 619 pages.

I love Stephenie Meyer!

She is young, she is fresh and new with story lines that are

completely different and alien, but human all at once.

"The Host" is a

curious story of love and hate, "souls" and humans, both fighting for the

simple existence that life is. But for Melanie and the "soul" Wanderer,

existence is futile while they both incarnate the same body. 

The fight between "souls" and the few remaining humans

continues, yet in one little corner of the Arizona

desert love and the need to exist prevails. The humans won’t give up. Yet the

aliens just want to survive. By adopting the human body as a host, these "souls" posses the mind while the body remains intact. 

When Melanie Stryder, one of the last remaining humans, is

captured she is infused with the "soul" of Wanderer, the invading alien.

According to the book's synopsis, Wanderer was warned about the challenges of living inside a human: the

overwhelming emotions, the glut of senses, the too-vivid memories. What Wanderer was not expecting — Melanie

refusing to relinquish her mind, nor her memories of her love Jared and her

brother Jamie.

Whether it sounds cruel or grotesque, Meyer’s "The Host" makes the reader consider "what

if?" Meyer writes about these invading "souls" in such a way it makes you relate

to these strange metallic shiny things. You almost want to volunteer your own

body for their implantation, or at least let them stick around in someone

else’s.

I was constantly wondering where Meyer was going to take