The Host was intended to be part of a series. And if you are looking to start reading, Harry Potter would be a better option to start with, but this one would also be quite alright. If you are a bookworm, you’ll find this a good option to merely pass your time. You can read it anywhere, anytime, unlike some of the heavyweights that require so much of your attention. Like her earlier books (Meyer is getting referenced a lot in this article!), this too is a novel just to pass your time. The Host is basically a love story – two love stories – those of Melanie and Wanderer.

Of course, this is no Agatha Christie, but you get what I’m trying to say. And just when you begin to become complacent, something happens that you didn’t at all envision. There is no way, despite the repetitiveness, that you don’t root for the good characters. This repetitiveness is exactly what it is – a series of events that occur over and over again.Īs The Host progresses, however, it becomes gripping and pulls you in. While there are some lighter elements in the narrative, it also tends to become a little repetitive in places. She tends to bring in paranormal elements and then, in their presence, elevate humanity. Stephenie Meyer seems obsessed with those not human. What happens when Melanie’s thoughts take over Wanderer’s mind? Can these two live in harmony? Its previous owner Melanie still resides. Wanderer’s host, she finds, is not yet empty. The souls or parasites as the humans call them, have taken over Earth by inserting those of their kind into human bodies, which they call hosts.

The Host is the story of human host, Melanie Stryder into which an experienced soul, Wanderer is inserted. But somehow, Meyer managed to surprise me just a little bit. I went into this book with few expectations, because I knew it was going to be an easy, breezy read sans the literary quality. Of course, the larger picture brings older characters into the limelight, but attention is on the few school-going kids.Īnd just like the Twilight series, there comes The Host. It is about vampires, but those who are in their teens, one of whom falls in love with a teenage human girl. Stephenie Meyer isn’t anything of a force to reckon with in literary circles. And the books weren’t as bad as the movies. But I will say this over and over again, like any booklover: The books were better. And yes, the Twilight movies were adapted from Meyer’s books. The first thing that goes through any bookworm’s mind when they think “Stephenie Meyer” is “Oh, she’s that vampire wali author, no?” Yes, she is.

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