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The Host

By Stephenie Meyer

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| Paperback | 9781847441843

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  • The Host by Stephenie Meyer

    The aliens in Meyer's The Host are contradictory critters: on the one hand, gentle pacifists who don't bother with money because they just take what they need from shops, on the other, ruthless invaders of not only other sentient species' planets but ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • THE HOST

    The Earth, in the not-too-distant future, has been taken over by alien “souls,” parasitic worm-like beings that wish to experience life as humans. Some years after the occupation, only a few scattered human resistors remain. A young human survivor, M ... (read full critics)

    teenreads published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  • 4 people find this helpful

    I should stop reading books for teens and then complain because I'm not fully satisfied.
    The host is a nice story, I like the idea of two minds in the same body. I like the fact that they can't be in the same body at the same time.
    The feelings expressed are always the same (mostly sweet, ... (continue)

    I should stop reading books for teens and then complain because I'm not fully satisfied.
    The host is a nice story, I like the idea of two minds in the same body. I like the fact that they can't be in the same body at the same time.
    The feelings expressed are always the same (mostly sweet, unbearable, plastic love), the female character is so similar to Bella, it could be the continuation of the same story. And of course he is beautiful, intelligent, strong and... Edward.
    But the style is easy to read, and the story grabs your mind. Sometimes it even gives something to think about, what else can we ask from a book?
    (Apart from a better writing or 100 pages less...)

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    Alice said on Jan 12, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • 3 people find this helpful

    Fantastic book! Rarely does a 600+ page book go by so fast. I loved the Twilight series (classified for YA) but I think this was Meyer's best book yet. I didn't read the dust jacket before hand so I had no idea what it would be about. Don't brush this one off if you don't enjoy sci-fi, it turned o ... (continue)

    Fantastic book! Rarely does a 600+ page book go by so fast. I loved the Twilight series (classified for YA) but I think this was Meyer's best book yet. I didn't read the dust jacket before hand so I had no idea what it would be about. Don't brush this one off if you don't enjoy sci-fi, it turned out to be a real human drama even if it envolved aliens. The writing was smooth and grabbed me at the start and kept pace until the very end.

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    Icedream said on May 29, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • 1 person find this helpful

    I could not even get through it. Very bad.

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    Eadler said on Dec 9, 2009 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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