The Host

This woman confounds me!  Her writing is overall not good, but she does do dialogue well and maybe that is how she hooks you in.  

The first third of this book was painfully tedious for me, it needed editing.  Not just to be cut down but to be thought about more.  I guess that is often a complaint for me with her work, I wish I could tell that she had really thought things out instead of just writing in a big purge and never looking at it again – of course, I don’t know that she does that but it is how I read it. 

The second third of the book was better; maybe because we got to meet other characters?  And the last third was far too stretched out for the obvious conclusion.  Overall, the plot wasn’t really my thing, but it was an interesting idea, and that is certainly something.  I just wish she had written it better.