It turns out that the souls are often drawn to other souls who occupy the bodies of the humans whom the people their own bodies belonged to once loved. In Melanie’s body Wanderer is bombarded by intense memories and dreams that center around a man named Jared, whom Melanie loved. While Wanderer has physical control of the body, Melanie’s consciousness talks back to her and makes her life miserable.
Melanie attempted suicide in order to resist capture, and now that Wanderer occupies her body, Melanie’s consciousness refuses to go away. Wanderer has asked to be placed in the body of an adult, but this presents a big problem for her because Melanie, her host, was one of the last surviving people captured by the seekers (a group of souls who devote themselves to searching out the remaining humans and capturing them so they can be hosts for other souls). They have done so before on other planets and they believe they are making Earth a better, more harmonious place by doing so here. The souls inhabit the bodies of their hosts and take control of them. At this point in the story, most of the people on Earth have been taken over by a parasitic alien species whose members refer to themselves as the souls. The Host opens with a scene in which an alien known as Wanderer is inserted into the body of her host, a human woman named Melanie. Happily, The Host eventually revved up, and I enjoyed it more than I expected I would in the beginning. It took me around 120 pages to get caught up in The Host, and for those 120 I feared that a monumental task was what the book would turn out to be. I must admit at the outset of this review that I almost never read books this long (600+ pages), because they can seem more like monumental tasks than like invitations for enjoyment. The premise of The Host, that of an “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” type story but told from the viewpoint of a body snatching alien, sounded interesting and different to me. So when my fellow blogger Jia was unable to get too far into The Host, a genre-bending speculative romantic thriller and your first book for adults, I agreed to give it a try.
While I didn’t think it was perfect, I did enjoy your first young adult novel, Twilight. Janine C Reviews Category / C+ Reviews aliens / Love-Triangle / Sci-fi / Science-Fiction-Romance / Stephenie-Meyer / Twilight Saga 25 Comments
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