They excuse the huge thing of erasing us by saying, 'But we're making it a better place.' They're nice but just think we don't need to be around. They're peaceable beings who think they can do a better job with our planet than we're doing.

The aliens in 'The Host' don't either, but -Ī: But they're not scary monsters who are here to eat us and destroy our planet, no. Wells' 'War of the Worlds,' aliens who come to Earth don't usually have our best interests at heart. It's about what it feels like to be in a human body, if you weren't in one every day. It's really about being human it's not about what it's like to be an alien. It's definitely science fiction because of the whole alien aspect, but it's a very human version of that. They start out as enemies and become so close that they consider themselves sisters at the end. Since Melanie and Wanda are occupying the same body, complications naturally ensue.Ī: The love story is there, of course, but it's really about the relationship, the bond between these two people who are sharing one body. There they encounter Jared, Melanie's dreamy former boyfriend, and Ian, an equally dreamy young man to whom Wanderer - dubbed 'Wanda' by Jeb, the leader of the resistance - finds herself attracted.

Soon, Melanie/Wanderer finds her way to the secret desert hideout of a group of humans resisting the alien takeover. But Melanie's own soul lives on inside Wanderer, who begins to see things from Melanie's perspective. In the midst of separating a generation of young female readers into Team Edward and Team Jacob, Stephenie Meyer, author of the wildly popular 'Twilight' novels, started a new book called 'The Host.' Published by Little, Brown in 2008, 'The Host' is a sci-fi yarn - with plenty of romance, as Meyer's legions of fans had come to expect - about a young woman named Melanie Stryder, one of the few humans left on Earth whose physical form has yet to be taken over by Souls, a race of body-snatching extraterrestrials who have colonized the planet.Įarly on, Melanie is captured and a Soul known as Wanderer implanted in her body.

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