The Host by Stephenie Meyer

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
If You Like: Dystopian stories, love triangles
Similar To: The Hunger Games, Twilight
Ages: 13-50

This is a good book, but it's not very fast paced, and it's a lot longer than I think it should be. It's also rather confusing at first, but I had seen the preview for the movie, which helped guide me a little.

Melanie Stryder was one of the few humans left who hadn't been taken over by a soul. She traveled with her younger brother Jamie, and the love of her life, Jared. Now, she wakes up, and she's the host for a soul from another planet. The problem is that both entities are living in one body. They can communicate with each other, and it doesn't seem as though that happens with other souls and their host bodies.

The Seeker assigned to Melanie and Wanderer (the name given to the soul) is suspicious of this body too. She has been keeping a close eye on Wanderer, and asks Wanderer to meet her in another city. Wanderer has Melanies memories and has also fallen in love with Jamie and Jared. On her way to meet the Seeker, she decides she wants to find Jared and Jamie based on the directions her Uncle Jeb gave her to an underground cave.

When Wanderer finds the cave that houses 35 humans, she is not welcomed with open arms. In fact, she is treated like a prisoner because she is the enemy. After a while though, the friendships and relationships she develops earn her a place in the caves with the humans. The problem is that the Seeker will never give up her search for Wanderer, and that puts all of the humans in the cave in danger.

Will the Seeker find the hidden cave. Can Jared learn to love Melanie's body while it inhabits Wanderer's soul? Is there a way to remove a soul from a body so that the humans can return to the selves they once were?