The Host by Stephenie Meyer

Although it took me a little while to really get into this story, I was very pleased with the depth of the writing that eventually presented itself.

This story is about “aliens” who go from planet to planet in the universe infecting a host and experiencing that planet from the host’s body.  In this book the aliens, who call themselves souls, have come to Earth and are using humans as their hosts.

The “soul” is placed on the spinal cord in the back of the humans neck.  It then proceeds to take over the hosts body and push out the original human.  Problems arise when the soul called Wanderer takes over the host body of Melanie Stryder, a rebel human who is running and hiding from this alien invasion.  Melanie refuses to give her body over to Wanderer…so they have to co-exist in her body.  It can get confusing when two people are speaking in one mind!

Melanie has secrets that she refuses to share with Wanderer.  These are secrets that she would give up her life for…will Wanderer dig them out and use them against Melanie?

It took quite a while for this story to capture my interest, but don’t give up.  It’s worth the read!