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| The Host: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  563 reviews
Sales Rank: 463973
Format: Large Print
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1152
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 5.9 x 2.5
ISBN: 0316034118
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780316034111
ASIN: 0316034118
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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 BORING!! May 12, 2008
27 out of 68 found this review helpful
It took me a total of three days to read Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. I loved this series and I was very excited for this book to come out thinking it would be another great read.
Far from it! I have spent the last six days forcing myself through the pages of this book. I love reading and have not enjoyed a book less than this in a very long time.
I would not recommend this book to anyone.
Awful May 25, 2008
27 out of 43 found this review helpful
I didn't like the book. Yeah, I know that Stephenie Meyer's books are popular, but her characters are two-dimensional. I want to read plausible dialogue with honest emotions, not Soap Opera speak. This book also needs a good editor: bigger is not always better; entire chapters need to be cut out. And if you think that Bella* is self sacrificing, just wait till you meet the Wanderer. The Wanderer is a parasitic alien that lives in the body of a human host, a 20-year-old girl named Melanie.
The aliens take over planet Earth by surgically inserting themselves into the brains of humans. (Once implanted, the human soul dies.) The aliens then live human lives: they shop, watch TV, play sports, eat Cheetos, etcetera. The only thing that is different about them is that they are super nice...in a Stepford Wives sort of way. They are also very altruistic creatures (except for the fact that they've killed off creatures from 9 worlds); they live in Communist-like communities, are very naive, and incredibly boring. At the Olympics, everyone wins a medal; movies always have a happy ending; and there are never any conflicts--well, except for those pesky humans that don't want to die...
*Bella is a character from Meyer's Twilight series.
So disappointed May 25, 2008
23 out of 40 found this review helpful
I wanted to like this book - I really did. I had looked forward to its release and preordered it from Amazon. I love the Twilight series. The books are written perfectly for the young adult reader. When The Host was promoted as an adult book that Ms. Meyers would be able to write to her target audience. Didn't happen.
Sadly, I thought the book was slow and the characters weren't particularly engaging. The humans were cruel. The Wanderer was self sacrificing and she spent her time cringing and flinching and hiding. I saw the ending coming from a mile away. I read the entire thing but it was a struggle. I was tempted to put it down several times, and only a determined effort kept me going.
 Entertaining and Thought-provoking May 6, 2008
22 out of 40 found this review helpful
For those YA's that love the Twilight series, there isn't anything too 'adult' in this book, even though that is the intended audience purportedly. Meyer's has a way of creating vulnerable yet strong characters in her books and she doesn't let us down here. In many ways her characters remind a lot of those in Amy Lane's Little Goddess series (which is definitely more 'Adult') or her latest series (more YA) in that they bear their suffering and tragedy with a solid core of ethics and morality that, while at times may stretch believability, still provide an emotional catharsis and identification with those better parts of ourselves. Love conquers all, even across species, isn't exactly a new theme, but Meyer really brings a great story and environment to life, that transports us while we are in it. There are also hints of Nalini Singh's Psy-Changeling series here, which have always had a Pavlovian reaction for me: the 'emotionless' breaking through their conditioning, experiencing love for the first time, and all the heartache and joy that can encompass.
Slow, Boring and Dissapointing May 14, 2008
19 out of 41 found this review helpful
I was so excited for more stephenie meyer, I guess maybe I was to excited, because normally if a book starts off good I can't put it down. I am bored and uninterested in the Host I can't even seem to read very much at a time I just don't like it, I'm so bummed. I'm going back to vampires. I'm sorry stephenie, nothing against you!
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