The Host by Stephenie Meyer, Narrated by Kate Reading (Read via Audible.com)

The book evolves around a time after the human race was mostly taken over by an alien race that are practically parasites. They implant themselves and take over each human body, but they continue living on very much like humans.

Then meet Melanie Stryder, a human that was captured in the wild, had a unique being implanted in her. The Parasite took on the name of Wonderer, however Melanie stayed awake. Although Melanie could not work her body, she could still talk to Wonderer in her head.

The book goes on the journey of Wonderer retracing Melanie’s steps back to one of the rogue underground hideout the humans still had. Then the trials of a rogue parasite living with this faction.

Please use wikipedia, I am not giving this complex plot justice.

On to my opinion.

What a long book. This book weighs in at over 600 pages or about 23 hours of tape. For the second half of the book I played this book on double speed just because there was so much. It took time to get through this book. The plot progressed slow, however I did appreciate the character development and struggles that the entire faction had with this unique thing.

I also did like the inner dialogues that Wanda and Melanie had with each other. It was rather interesting how Wanda struggled with her own identity against Melanie memories and present self.

In the end though, for how long it was, I found it very unfulfilling. Its not that I did not like it. I did. The book really raised and debated some great moral points which I gobbled up. But I could have seen this book much denser, and still could have got all the details in with plenty of room to spare, that’s all.

5/10