Ok so, I guess I should start by saying how surprised and impressed I was with this book! It was way better than I expected it to be. While I have never read any books by Stephanie Meyer before (and I know this is wrong to do), I silently judged her because I could not stand the Twilight movies! I have heard the books are better, and maybe they are, but those movies were not enjoyable for me at all. The worst part about them was that I was fooled into watching 3 of them before I finally said enough! So I went into this book with some pretty low expectations, I'm so glad I was wrong! And while I don't think I will ever read the Twilight books, after reading the Host I will definitely continue on with this series!

I will say that it was a little slowing moving at the beginning, but after about the first 100 pages or so though I was hooked. The Host was not really an action packed book, there was a lot of deep thinking in this. I liked the whole questioning what makes a human, well, human. I also really liked the whole idea of the "souls", it was all very interesting. It was really neat to get the "souls" perspective on things too. At times I did find Wanda a little annoying, but ultimately I sympathized with her. I really like Ian, I thought he was a good man. Jared was a little harder for me to like. I did understand why he acted the way he did at times, but it really didn't make it any easier to read some of the things he did to Wanda. I thought Jeb was amazing! Maybe because he brought a little comic relief, but also because he was truly a good person.

I am looking forward to seeing what comes next in this series! Especially with the way this book ended! I feel like things are going to just get more interesting!