I have been putting off reading the host because for some strange reason I felt as though I was betraying ‘Twilight’. I know it’s crazy but I wasn’t ready to leave the ‘Twilight’ fantasy world just yet.

Anyway, enough crazy talk. I started reading ‘The Host’ on Sunday afternoon and finished yesterday afternoon. Yes, it was THAT good! I couldn’t read fast enough. The story is entirely different to what I had expected.

The story is about an parasite-type alien race which take over Earth by using humans as hosts.  The few humans that are left are all on the run from the Seekers. Melanie Stryder is one of these humans, but she gets caught and Wanderer is inserted into her body. A strange thing happens though – Melanie does not disappear, instead Melanie and Wanderer are forced to share her body.

Melanie uses her human memories of the man she loves, Jared, to try to torture Wanderer and to keep her younger brother, Jamie, hidden from her. Wanderer begins to love Jared and Jamie and the journey to find them begins.

The story is full of wonderful surprises and some really interesting and extremely lovable characters. The aliens are completely different to any aliens you may have heard about and the book doesn’t have the sci-fi feal I thought it would, but rather it feels just as any other good fantasy book. The writing in this story is very different to that of ‘Twilight’ but you can still feel Stephenie in every inch of it. She is a genius.

I have fallen in love with these characters and I can only hope that Stephenie Meyer continues with the series, making it the 3 book series she envisioned.