Aliens named “Souls” have taken over Earth to create peace, killing the violent hu- man race. The few humans left called the “Resistance” are refusing to let human kind die.

Melanie Stryder is part of the Resistance and has cleverly evaded the souls until she was captured in Chicago.

A three inch silver soul named Wanderer (or Wanda) is implanted into Melanie’s body to gather information about the resistance but Melanie’s mind is still very much alive and is keeping secrets from Wanda.

As Wanda lives among
the Souls, she loses herself
in Melanie’s life and begins
to yearn for the man Melanie loves and the younger brother she adores.

Wanda will have to choose between fulfilling her purpose as a soul or searching for the man she’s fallen in love with and a brother she wants to protect.

On May 6, 2008 Little Brown and Company published the book, “The Host” by Stephanie Meyer. According to Stephanie Meyer’s Official Website, “The Host” was a highly-anticipated book for adults.

The recent release of the paperback mass market novel was on August 1, 2011.

As Stephanie Meyer stated on the website The Host Lexicon in the Official Hachette The Host Q&A by Laura on February 12, 2011 that her inspiration to write “The Host” occurred when she was driving from Phoenix to Salt Lake City in absolute boredom and made up this story to keep herself sane.

Since Meyer’s Twilight Saga, she has come out with several other books but The Host has taken Meyer’s writing to the next level.

Even though Meyer’s first few chapters are the introduction and background are slow, once the action packed chapters hit the pages, readers should be prepared to get sucked into a beautiful yet conflicted tale of love and the unknown.

Meyer has a fantastic vocabulary when it comes to “The Host.” It is easy to follow and readers can understand her sentences without having to use a dictionary.

Meyer’s characters are not only coloring this book to life but they are also drawing in a new perspective into the spot- light. Selflessness is a big part of Wanderer (Wanda) and automatically sets the mood for how much she is struggling with her decision between her duty and her future.

Meyer can not only lure her audience in with a touching romance but her imagination and descriptive details give the readers a craving for more wild sci-fi stories that leave us speechless.

On The Guardian website, Keith Brooke wrote, “The Host veers too often into either melodrama or sheer tedium, and for much of the book, Melanie and the rest of the cast eke out an existence underground – they talk a lot, they play football, and nothing much happens.”

Brooke is correct about “The Host” in that there’s nothing much going on within the story itself.

From an imaginative point of view, Meyer made up entire species, planets and enlightens the audience with a new love for what seems to be set like a Romeo and Juliet romance.

According to Michael Fleming’s article “Producers acquire Meyer’s ‘Host’” on the Variety website; producers Nick Wechsler, Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz are in the making “The Host” into a feature film, scheduled to be released on March 29.

Meyer said during CraveOnline during the Sun- dance 2013 interview with Fred Topel on January 20, 2013, “With “The Host” as a 200,000 word novel, to fit it into two hours is a real challenge, and there’s so much we had to cut.”

Meyer states that they “re- ally had to boil it down to the real essence of the story.”

Meyer and her producers have a trailer up and running for “The Host.”

With Meyer’s The Host becoming a movie, the book acquired a new cover with the characters from the movie and a new chapter within the book that was added after the original copy was published.

Look to buy “The Host” by Stephanie Meyer now,