The Host Review

The Host
Stephenie Meyer

 

                So let’s just start off by saying that at first I didn’t want to read this book. It all started about four years ago when everybody was obsessed with Twilight (me included). I was in love with those books, and to this day I still can’t figure out why. So when I finished Twilight I thought Stephenie Meyer was the best author out there. So I attempted to read her book The Host. Needless to say I barely made it into the book and just couldn’t read anymore. I was uninterested and fed up with the way she wrote things.

                So now flash-forward four years to present day. I’m sitting in the movie theatre getting ready to watch Warm Bodies when the movie trailer for The Host pops up. I was literally entranced by it. I’m not sure if it was the music that went along with the trailer that did it for me, or the hot ass guy that portrays the character Jared.  Needless to say I went straight home after the movie and picked up The Host and started reading it.

                We start out in some sort of hospital. There are two people talking which we come to know as A Seeker and a Healer. There working with the main characters body Melanie. Once they get the body ready they insert the host.

                When Wanderer wakes up she’s confused. Confused because never has she been in a host who is so resistant. But Melanie is not going to let her body just go to waste. She has too many things to live for Jared being one of them and then the biggest one, her brother Jamie. Slowly but surely these two become friends, but first there is a lot of fighting and arguing before that.

                I have to say that I loved this book. It was the perfect amount of Sci-Fi/Romance. Not only do we see Wanderer/Wanda struggle with her own feelings for Jared, but we see her struggle with Melanie being Jealous that Wanda is able to do all the things she can’t with Jared. Throw in Ian, who is hot and just an all-around great person and what we have is a mess.

                I know you probably don’t want to read this book because of course it is written by Stephenie Meyer, and we all know how Twilight went; but I’m telling you give it a chance. It’s a great book, and very well written. It’s easy to fall in love with all of the characters especially Jeb.

                So on my grading scale, I would give this book a 4/5 stars. It’s pretty good, and always keeps you on your toes.