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The Host

A Novel

By Stephenie Meyer

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| Hardcover | 9780316068048

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Book Description

The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake.

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the mContinue

14 Reviews

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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 | Add your feedback

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Good, but 300 pages too long

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L'idea di partenza e' molto buona e innovativa. E ci sono alcune trovate molto interessanti. Il problema e' la verbosita' della Meyer: dialoghi lunghi, spesso inutili. 300 pagine di troppo.
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The idea behind this book is a very good one. Hat off t ... (continue)

7/10
(English below)
L'idea di partenza e' molto buona e innovativa. E ci sono alcune trovate molto interessanti. Il problema e' la verbosita' della Meyer: dialoghi lunghi, spesso inutili. 300 pagine di troppo.
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The idea behind this book is a very good one. Hat off to Meyer for coming up with that. The problem, as in all of her books, is that you could eliminate 300 pages of useless (obnoxious?) dialogues, and this book would enormously improve.
Still a very nice book overall. And an extremely original storyline.

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― Demonio Pellegrino said on Oct 5, 2009 | Add your feedback

The first chapters were a struggle. After chapter 4 or 5, I just couldn't put it down!<br />Enjoyable!!

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― Nini said on Nov 10, 2009 | Add your feedback

More sci-fi and adult that the Twilight series, it is the beginning of a series (I hope!) that shows the Earth taken over by an alien race and the resistance of humans and the right to be themselves.

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― GeekGirl said on Oct 8, 2009 | Add your feedback

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!

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― Dax's wife said on Jun 24, 2009 | Add your feedback

This was such a great and easy read. A bit slow in the begining but it it all came together nicely. It's refreshing to read something with a happy ending. It may be writen by a YA author but this a great adult book as well.

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― Catstakeonit said on May 21, 2009 | Add your feedback