Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Host


I have been reading The Host, the only Stephenie Meyer book that is not in "The Twilight Saga". It is science fiction so it has weird stuff. It's about aliens called "souls" who invade earth and take over human minds. "Souls" are 3 inch things that look like worms or centipedes. Most of the time, when the "souls" take over someone's mind, the human's mind disappears. But one, Melanie Styder, doesn't disappear. Instead, she shows the "soul", Wanderer (later Wanda), memories of people she loves(Jamie and Jared). (Jamie and Jared are still humans. They live in hiding with 30other people who know about '''souls". If they were caught, their minds wouldn't disappear because they know about 'souls".) Wanda goes to them and has a hard time fitting in but eventually she does. During that time, she has lots of bad and good memories.



Because Melanie loves Jamie (brother) and Jared (boyfriend), Wanda starts to love them to. That's why she goes to find them. But why does Wanda love them? Just because she has memories of them, I don't see how she starts to love them to.



When Wanda (half-dead) finally finds Jared, Jamie and the other people, most of them treat her badly and the always hit her. I can see why the other people hit Wanda. She is a "soul" and she can turn them in. They just hate her because she's a "soul" and "souls" have invaded Earth. But I can't see why Jared hits Wanda. Even though he doesn't know that Melanie is still alive inside, I don't know how he can hurt her body if he really loves her.



The book always says that to see if you are human or if you have a "soul" in you, you can shine light in their eyes. It says that is you are still human, your eyes don't reflect but if you have a "soul", then your eyes reflect. Right after they take the "soul" out, her eyes don't reflect. How does that happen?

It's a good book but some parts are gross and weird.

5 comments:

Alicia said...

Wow. That's weird. How do the souls look like? What planet are they from? What do they eat? Do they like cheese? :)

Alicia said...

The book cover looks weird.

es said...

i know that souls only like the food that their host ( human) likes. They look like silver worms. They are from different planets: the flower planet, the mist planet. the Orgin, the singing world, Dolphin planet( they don't look like dolphins, they look like giant dragonflies),fire plant and a lot of others.

SW said...

this is such a gret blog that sounds like the best book every cant wait to read it

SW said...

this is a great blog you are doing really great hope i get to read it keep up the good work