The story continues with Melanie and Wanderer (nicknamed Wanda) adapting to their new life in the cave, befriending the humans and helping them with their attempts to survive, until a twist towards the end provides some excitement. He takes them to a cave that he set up with his family, a cave where over 20 humans are living. Melanie coaxes Wanderer into running away from a specific Seeker who is very keen on learning about Melanie’s memories to locate the other humans, and they end up near death in a desert, where finally Melanie’s Uncle Jeb finds them.
As Wanderer tries to fight Melanie’s voice in her head, she also sees all of Melanie’s memories, and becomes aware of her lover, Jared Howe as well as her beloved kid brother, Jamie. The soul, Wanderer, begins to adapt to her life in a human host, but is irritated by the constant resistance Melanie puts up inside of her head. The book starts with Melanie Stryder, the main protagonist, undergoing insertion and having a soul put into her body. While most of the humans have been invaded, there still remain many humans who are in hiding, trying to stay away from the Seekers (those who search for humans to use as a host,) and live by stealing food from houses and stores. However, the souls find that they have done a favor on the human race by eradicating warfare, violence, and bloodshed by replacing the battle worn Earth with a peaceful, serene, and calm place to live. These souls are apparently vicious to the humans, because they erase what it means to be human and represses the human within the body. The main plot of the book is that Earth has been invaded by extraterrestrial species named “souls” who take over the human body and replace it with a new soul. While the book itself did portray an intriguing plot, the movie itself shadows that with the overwhelming love story that could have been less ostentatious. While “The Host” was a better story than Twilight, in the end, the faulty writing and inept story line draws attention away from some actual interesting aspects. The Host, an independent ‘novel’ is really just another sappy love story which Meyer attempts to make ‘different’ with some science-fiction type of underlying story. After reading the entire Twilight series, I didn’t think that any Stephenie Meyer book could ever be anything close to actual literature.
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