The Host - Stephenie Meyer

okay so i actually read this book a few weeks ago after procrastinating for like a year. and yeah it was actually much much much MUCH better than i was expecting it to be considering twilight and stuff


**sidenote: i know everyone either loves loves loves twilight or hates it with their enitre existence. i read the books and they weren't that bad, they just didnt really have that much of a plot and bella irritates me so much omg asdfghjkl she's so DUMB LIKE JESUS LORD WOMAN GOD GAVE YOU BRAINS TO USE NOT SO YOU CAN FOLLOW YOUR IMMORTAL VAMPIRE BOYFRIEND EVERYWHERE AND HANG ON HIS EVERY WORD. but anywayyy. jacob was awesome but then he went and fell in love with bellas kid whILE BELLA WAS STILL PREGNANT and that irritated me but at the same time im glad he got over bella at least. anyway this side note is kind of long so bye**


anyway i dont own a copy of the book but here's a picture of the cover:

and heres a picture of the movie poster (i haven't seen the movie yet) 

(melanie is really pretty omg) 

Summary:

Earth is being invaded by aliens who posses human bodies and kill the actual soul that was inside it before. so when the book starts, there are very few humans still left on earth that are "un-possessed." the story is told from the POV of an alien named Wanderer (wanda) who possesses a girl (Melanie) who was a part of the resistance force thing. the reason she was put in Melanie's body is because the aliens want to get the information about where the rebels are hiding from her brain. but theeennn Melanie's soul doesn't go away, and she's purposely hiding the information from Wanda, and then she and Wanda start talking to each other. At first Wanda hates Melanie and wants her to go away, but then they start getting attached to each other. Also, their emotions start blending together so Wanda starts feeling the same emotion for Melanie's boyfriend Jared (who is hiding with the rebels) and then Wanda decides to go and look for Jared. So they go and find the rebels and then at first the rebels think Wanda is there to trick them but then they start becoming friends with her. however some of the rebels aren't happy with it, and one of them tries to kill her, but she survives. and then the aliens notice that Wanda has gone missing and there's this one psycho alien that's obsessed with her and thinks she's a traitor (which she is but still) and so basically they learn how to take the alien souls out of human bodies and send them to other planets without killing them, and sometimes, the human soul comes back.

My Overall Opinion:

9/10 i really liked the book overall, especially how it was written from Wanda's POV but it wasnt like amazingly well written (like it wasnt bad but it wasnt like mind blowing either) The story was interesting and unique and melanie didnt bother me thaatt much but mostly because she barely said anything it was mostly Wanda. i liked wanda (mostly) and i also liked jared a lot (i shipped him and melanie so hard) and i also shipped ian and wanda and i wish that could have happened. i liked how it ended without too many people dying too. i didn't like how they didn't tell you what happens to the rest of the world though. like she only resolved the love story (taylor swift reference) but even though they meet the other group of rebels, you dont know whether they kick the alien souls off of earth or if they learn to live in harmony or what so that bothered me slightly.

if you actually read all of that, thank you ily. feel free to request a book review in the comments if you want :)