The host by Stephanie meyer?

Question: The host by Stephanie meyer!?

So is this book any good!? give rating plzWww@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

When judged on its own, The Host is a fantastic book!. However, when you judge it alongside the Twilight series, it’s just mediocre!. But again, it IS a fantastic book!. I seriously doubt anyone could say that it’s horrible, or even bad, unless they are expecting Twilight with aliens!. It’s just different!.

Stephenie Meyer is easily my favorite author!. Not just because of her books, either!. She’s a lovely person!. Her values shine through her books, and I love her conservative take on a strictly liberal genre, sci-fi!. It’s extremely refreshing to read a sci-fi book from a different perspective!.

It seems like she’s trying to fit into another author’s shoes in The Host!. I would have known immediately that she was the writer, even without the countdown and her name on the cover!. Certain phrases gave me déjà vu, and some descriptions had the ghost of Bella in them!. She switched her focus from the characters a little, and focused on the plot!. (The plot is excellent, by the way) This caused me to have a hard time caring about Wanderer at first!. I had no idea how she felt about anything, and so she never sprung to life until she went to the desert!. Maybe that was intentional, to show how hosts become their bodies!. I cared wholeheartedly about Melanie!. Melanie was the strongest character Stephenie has ever written, I think!. When trying to explain her to my friends at school, I was at a total loss!. They were expecting Bella, for sure, and were shocked when I told them otherwise!. In terms of Twilight characters, she’s a hybrid of Rosalie, Leah, Jacob, Angela, and maybe even a little Jessica!. Outside of twilight, I would have to say Max from Maximum ride is the closest thing to her!. But those don’t even begin to cover her!. She’s a unique character, all right!. I wanted to read more from her perspective the entire book, and when I finally got more from her perspective, it was at a part where I wanted to know what was going on outside of her!. That made me growl in frustration!. Sometimes authors do that; it’s a discipline for the reader!. Like, “Before you get your desert, you have to eat your broccoli,” sort of thing!.

The aliens were indeed very moral!. My mind spun at the idea of no suspicion of anything in their new society!. I had to stop reading and ponder that a couple of times while reading!. I understood the peace, but the fact that there was no suspicion to anything just sent me reeling!. It made me seriously wonder how they could take over earth!. I would love a sequel to go back in time to when the earth was actually being taken over, just because it would be fun to read!.

None of the boys are exactly as breathtaking as Edward, but there’s definitely a jacoblike character!. Ian!. He has a bit of Emmett in him, too!. In fact, it seemed like all of the males in the hideout were characters like the werewolves!. Jared had a taste of Edward and Sam!. I saw a mix of Carlisle and Charlie in Uncle Jeb!. Jamie was a standout character!. He reminded me of the pre adolescent Jacob, and of my own sister!. The whole dynamic of the hideout was so much like the “pack” it intrigued me!.

I am describing everything in terms of Twilight, I know!. But Stephenie’s characters all have a little bit of each other in them!.

At first, I was really confused with everything!. Then it got easier!. Suddenly, it got even more confusing!. Fast-forward fifty pages, and it gets easier, she slips back into her “voice,” and stops forcing things!.

From there, the book speeds up and you get really into it!. I finished The Host in three days, a pitiful time for me!. (I read the deathly hallows in a single night, for those of you wondering, got it at the stroke of midnight and gorged myself on ice cream, soda and literature until five in the morning, when I got online to comment, and soon after passed out from exhaustion) Mostly because it’s so intellectual, I had to seriously stop a couple of times and stare at the beautiful cover, lost in thought!. The host is provocative, poignant!. My mind raced the whole time!. It’s not a light read by any means!.

It’s got a habit of making me stop doing whatever I am doing and forcing me to just read it!. I was trapped on my computer chair, eating ice cubes and glued to it when Wanderer and Melanie about died in the desert!.

The atmosphere was very different from Twilight!. I almost felt the heat in the host, and consequentially found myself both hot and thirsty while eating those ice cubes!. It’s more visual than Twilight, if you can imagine that, but in my opinion, it wouldn’t make a very good movie, because so much of the novel is psychological!. You couldn’t eat popcorn with it!. You would have to pause it constantly to comment to the person next to you about developments!.

It’s very good!. The romance is toned down, which I was warned about repeatedly, but it still made me disappointed!. I wanted to see more of the boys! And, on that same line, Stephenie stays true to her promise that she will never use sex to sell her books!. It’s squeaky clean!. The violence is gristly, though!.

Overall, excellent!. Go get it but dont expect to be reading Twilight, and give her a hundred or so pages to get going!.

my rating: 4!.5 for a few parts that dont glide by!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Not bad, but not fantastic either!. The characters weren't as developed as the reviews say!. also, there were well written parts where she described things in creative ways I never thought of before, and there were parts I thought the book could do without!.

6!.5/10!.Www@QuestionHome@Com