Today I want to talk about The Host by Stephenie
Meyer. As you can see, at the end of the page I have the review I had written
for Goodreads and if you have read it, you will know how much I love this book.
With few words, The Host, describes the invasion of aliens on earth, but it has
nothing to do with other books with aliens. This book can stick in your head.
The reader watch two lives collide in the same body,
as the intruder, a soul named Wanderer, is trying to take Melanie’s life. And I
am thinking now…if we could imagine Wanderer like a problem we face, isn’t that
something we deal in our everyday life? We live our lives and some day, some time;
something is coming to the surface and consumes us. At that moment on, we are
called to learn and live with it, or we fight it. Like Melanie did refusing to
let herself extinct that easy. So, let’s say we fight, we find strength and
will and we struggle as long as it takes until we get rid of that problem. Many
times we have to struggle with ourselves since we are the ones who create the
problem all along, or we have to make peace with ourselves first, before we start
dealing with the problem. Is this too far from the actual fight inside Melanie’s
body?
And going on further…which are the possibilities of a
fight like that? Either we let the problem cover us and we are miserable, or we
take the problem and we shift it, we move it until we can control it and find a
way to overthrown it. Like Melanie…she started flooding Wanderer’s mind with the
image of the man she was in love with and with time feelings started growing inside
Wanderer’s heart.
So, in a very free translation, I can say that this
book, despite a beautiful read, speaks in your heart, making you reconsider
your priorities and makes you see a piece of yourself in it. I don’t know what
Meyer had in her mind while she was writing this book but I can say for sure
that this is her best for me, because it has a strong and powerful story,
perfect characters which you love, but above all, it keeps your mind spinning.
This is one of my re-read books always ready to wash away a bad book. Great discussion on The Host.
ReplyDeleteThank you. It is indeed a book that you can definitely read re-read it as many times as you want.
DeleteHi, A. I've had this book for a very long time now but I'm hesitating to read it. I don't know why. I've read all The Twilight books.
ReplyDeleteRecently, I saw a movie trailer of The Host on Youtube and I started to have an interest in the book.
Now, with your post, I think I'm hooked. I'll read it soon and I hope I enjoy it like you and Robyn did.
I have heard this again, people hesitating to read this book. Yes, there might be some weird names on it, but if you rule that out the rest is amazing. I say you give it a try.
Deletegreat review, nice to know this is a completely new thing for Meyer.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is different from the Twilight saga and I enjoyed it much more. I totally recommend it!
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