Number of pages: 619
Number of pages it should have been: 325
Number of stars I am giving it: 2
I was a little late getting on the "Host" bandwagon. The reason for that is I have started this book about 5 times. Everytime I just couldn't get into it. This time I just made myself a firm committment that I would finish it, and finish it fast so that I could say I had. The concept behind this book is pretty cool, and I wanted to like it. Many of my friends loved it, so maybe I am the weird one. There are two reasons I am giving it 2 stars instead of 1. The first reason is that it does start to get interesting in the last 25% of the book which helped me to finish it, and the other reason it gets 2 stars is because it does have a "happy" ending.
The book starts out in a very confusing way where you don't even know who is talking. It stays this way for at least a hundred pages. It also starts out very BORING. She goes over and over and over the same emotions. And just when you think your eyes will fall out from boredom she goes over and over and over the same emotions AGAIN. Just when you are about to give up something actually starts to happen. Don't get your hopes up though. With a change of scenery in the book the writer can now go over and over and over and over what the scenery looks like. I get it already its a cave, the dirt is purple, its a cave, its dark, of course its dark, ITS A CAVE! And then she talks about the food they eat over and over and over again. How many times does a person need bread explained to them? I have seen bread, I have even eaten bread myself so I don't need it explained 400 times. The amount of time she spends on food, people eating food, people thinking about food, people preparing food, people getting food, people getting food for other people, people getting drinks, people thinking about getting drinks...its amazing.
The weirdest thing in the book is the relationship between Jared and Melanie. They are suppossed to have this beyond amazing relationship, but in the whole book it isn't believable and just comes across as really strange and based out of desperation and lust. I couldn't have cared one way or the other if their relationship lasted. The other relationship between Wanda and Ian is much more believabe and seems to be based on more than just lust, so of course this relationship takes on less importance.
I don't like that she portrays the human race as being almost competely hate filled and selfish. The last 25% of the book, while more enjoyable, was filled with more holes than a block of swiss cheese.
So there are only about 25 humans left and they only managed to get 1 gun? Really, I guess my husband or brothers didn't make it then. They were suppossed to be fanatical survivalists, 1 gun, I don't think so.
Their plan to abduct 1 alien at a time and change them back to humans...hows that going to work when there are 3 billion people on Earth? And of course they can't kill the aliens, they have to ship them off to space so that there is no violence. The only problem with that is they are using the aliens to ship the other aliens back, how are the shipper aliens going to get back? At some point aren't the aliens going to fight back seeing as they are much more advanced? Also a large percentage of the people that had their minds taken over were small children and infants. After you take the alien controlling their brain out what memories will they have exactly? I could go on and on and on...just not as long as Stephanie Meyers can.
I really enjoyed the Twilight series, not that they were great books, they were simply enjoyable. I would give the Twilight series 3 stars. Much more worth your time. Will I ever read The Host again? No. Will I ever go to a movie made after The Host? No. Do I hope Stephanie Meyers writes another book? I really coudn't care. Sorry for the negative review. My blog, my opinion. I really feel cheated out of the last 3 days of my life :)
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