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Book review: The host
The host
Stephanie Meyer
Little Brown and Company
2008
“Body my house Where will I sleep
my horse my hound How will I ride
what will I do What will I hunt
when you are fallen
How will it be
Where can I go To lie in the sky
Without my mount Without roof or door
All eager and quick and wind for an eye
How will I know With cloud for a shift
In thicket ahead how will I hide”
Is danger or treasure
When Body my good
Bright dog is dead
The Earth has been taken over by aliens.
They’re called souls.
The souls take over the human bodies and then they can control everything. But souls aren’t evil. They’re kind and peaceful.
They have taken over a lot of other planets too.
This story is about Wanderer, called Wanda, and she’s inserted in the human Melanie’s body. But Melanie is still there inside and she convinces Wanda to go to the humans who’s still themselves. They should live in a cave somewhere in the desert.
But when Wanda finds the humans they think she’s one of the souls’ spies, called seekers, and they can’t see that Melanie is still inside the body, so they aren’t very happy about her appearance.
The author uses some difficult words and she uses a lot of slang - c’mon for example - , which is kind of hard to understand when you aren’t very good at the Queen’s English at first.
The book is written in imperfect.
I think it’s normal long sentences. Some are long and some are short but most of them are just
normal.
I think that it’s very detailed.
“I looked at the woman who had spoken, surprised to see that she was as old as Jeb, maybe
older. Her hair was dark gray rather than white, which is why I hadn’t noticed her age before.
Her face was a mass of wrinkles, all of them turning down into angry lines. But there was
something familiar about the features behind the lines.”
It’s quite simple, as always, I the dialogs but when it’s describing parts, very often, then it’s
very detailed.
I think that the story is both serious and humoristic. The funniest parts are when it’s serious.
I would say that the story is tolerant because Wanda is a tolerant person.
I think that, if I understood it right, it’s personal. The narrator is the first person, Wanda, and then it’s very personal for Wanda.
I don’t know if it’s any message that the author wants to convey, but if it is maybe it’s that aliens doesn’t have to be evil and green and take over our planet with weapons. They could be peaceful and I think they do it because it’s the best.
It’s written in imperfect but it’s chronological with some memories from Melanie’s past.
I really liked the book. It was kind of slow in the beginning but when she found the humans it was more fun to read.
It’s a very thick book, about 600 pages, so it took me some time to read it and sometime I had to force myself to read.
I think the category of readers should be young adults, like the age 13+ or something. I think that adults could read it too, but I think that the author wrote it for young adults, because it’s that kind of language young people uses these days. And maybe the plot is more for younger people, but they can’t be too young.
I would recommend this book this book because it’s very exciting and funny. An interesting plot, too. Maybe if you’re not used to English you should read it in Swedish first.
But you should read it.
En book review till skolan. Hoppas ni gillar den!
Kram Aggie!
Hej everyone!
Vi hade författarbesök i skolan i tisdags. Det var Johanna Lindäck som kom på besök och talade om hur det är att vara författare. Jag kommer inte ihåg allt men hon sa lite om författarens lön. Om man köper en bok, inbunden, i bokhandeln går ca 27 kronor till författaren (om det är en ungdomsbok) och om man köper en pocket får författaren 7-8 kronor. Om man lånar en bok på biblan får författaren 0.81 kronor. Ganska lite, men otroligt roligt att se sin bok i tryck.
Sorry för kort inlägg, men jag har inte mycket mer att skriva.
Detta är då Johanna Lindbäck, en riktigt bra föreläsare som har inspirerat mig mycket
En väldigt trevlig intervju med författaren Johanna Lindbäck som har skrivit bl. a "Tänk om det där är jag", "Som om jag frågat" och "Min typ brorsa".
Enjoy and Learn! Kram Aggie
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