The Host. Doesn’t that sound really ominously cool? Like the kind of book where some alien species that look like silver worms invade Earth and inject themselves into their human Hosts? If yes, then either you’ve read the book or you have an insanely inhuman talent allowing you to analyse the full plot of the book based on the title and front cover. I seriously wish I could have that power; I could just look at a book and see if I was going to like it or not. That would really come in handy with all the crappy plots that are being weaved by over-confident writers. Ah, well.

Anyways, The Host is about a specific soul. She is known as Wanderer; she has visited more worlds that souls have taken over than most others of her kind. She then comes to Earth, where her host is Melanie Stryder. A host is basically the body of the native species on that planet that the soul is using to get around.The Hosts are not meant to be aware, they are not dead but have merely been replaced by another being. But Melanie is different. She can talk to Wanderer, give her dreams and share her memories. At first, Wanderer is terrified, but as she discovers more about Melanie, she is willing to risk everything for the humans she meets.

And on a very dramatic, reality-TV style plot twist, they are both in love with the same man. Oooh, I know.

I would recommend this to anyone who is a) a human and b) has a brain.

See you next post!

Hawi xx