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Post by Bella Cullen on Nov 22, 2009 16:51:27 GMT 2
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact and continue their lives apparently unchanged. Most of humanity has succumbed. When Melanie, one of the few remaining "wild" humans is captured, she is certain it is her end. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, was warned about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the glut of senses, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Wanderer probes Melanie's thoughts, hoping to discover the whereabouts of the remaining human resistance. Instead, Melanie fills Wanderer's mind with visions of the man Melanie loves—Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she has been tasked with exposing. When outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off on a dangerous and uncertain search for the man they both love. --------------------------------- Discuss The Host here!
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Post by Jasper Hale on Jan 14, 2010 0:43:02 GMT 2
The Host for me was something of an uncomfortable read. I loved it at the beginning, I liked the mystery and intrigue of it all, as well as the different approach to an Earth invasion story it took, but it just became far too repetitive! All Melanie seemed to do was cry and sit in that tiny cave where they locked her when they caught her. She wasn't proactive until about the last hundred or so pages which by that time I had lost interest in the story.
I think if they cut a good portion of it, took out some of the repeated stuff then it could have been much, much better. But I don't know if that was just me, what did everyone else think?
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Post by Bella Cullen on Apr 3, 2010 19:54:40 GMT 2
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