Well I tell you something I only like seeing one 5.30 in the day but just recently I have been seeing both, as I get a very early train to get to University on a daily basis, and trust me staying awake that early knowing you then have to do a full day at university - well it is harder than it looks... So it takes something that will keep my attention to keep me awake enough to get through the hundred minute journey every morning - which in itself is a little bit of a mission considering I bore easily when I'm tired. So my first option was my MP3 player, but then that wasn't enough to keep me awake, so my last choice given I was on a train was getting a book out to keep ..  Read the complete review

If you are in to books and keep pretty up to date with the best sellers lists in fiction, (that is if, like me, you spend half your lunch break most weeks gazing at the lovely new books out in the book shops!) it would be hard to miss this author and the massive popularity of her previous series of books for young adults about a normal girl falling in love with a vampire. So successful was this series, it was made into a film with the further books being made soon I assume. As a follow up, Stephanie Meyer has targeted "The Host" at an older audience although it has a similar sci-fi/another world theme about it. The idea of this story is that ...  Read the complete review

Despite not enjoying the Twilight movie when I watched it last week, I was nonetheless intrigued by this unconnected novel written by the author of that popular series. At its most basic a conventional sci-fi novel, The Host takes a familiar principle ~ that of alien invaders taking over the bodies of humans a la Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers ~ and gives it a modern and original spin. These aliens mean us no harm, instead they have come to save our species from itself! Melanie, a lone human searching for a lost relative, is on the run from a band of "Seekers", aliens set to hunt down anyone who has not been transformed, when she plunges down an ...  Read the complete review

The Host is the first 'adult' novel by Stephanie "Twilight Saga" Meyer. It tells the story of Wanderer an otherworldy being whose kind have invaded Earth and more-or-less taken control. Her 'kind' do this by capturing human beings and surgically inserting themselves until they take over the soul of the body that they have invaded. It is a fight for survival rather than an evil overthrowing for the most part. Wanderer is a well respected example of her species, having travelled amongst many planets on missions without ever settling, thus her name. She is given what is perceived to be a particularly tricky assignment, that is the taking ...  Read the complete review

I first heard of Stephanie Meyer through the Twilight movie, and after reading all 4 books in the Twilight Saga, I was excited to find she had written The Host, and I can only hope she writes more books very soon. This book is very different from the Twilight Saga, and maybe a little slow to get into for a short while, but trust me, it is so worth the read once you get into properly. I got completley lost in this book and read it in one day, and was quite sad when I had finished it, I wanted to continue reading it! The characters are well developed, and you really get to know the characters in the book, and not just the main ones either. I truly ...  Read the complete review