Helpful Score: 8
Stephenie Meyer is a HUGE success because of the characters and world she intricately spun with the Young Adult "Twilight" series. Part of her success was her ability to draw in an adult audience, similar to the appeal of Rowling's "Harry Potter" series. (Additionally, romantic stories about vampires carry their own loyal following.)
"The Host" is marketed as ADULT fiction and strays from the vampire-genre completely. However, making the protagonist slightly older than teen-aged and removing high school as the setting does not necessarily "mature" the subject matter.
I found a similarity between "The Host" and the "Twilight" saga (particularly "Eclipse," book 3)in that the main characters in both novels were conflicted with their inner-natures as well as feeling divided between two very different types of love.
However, the mechanics of the science-fiction aspect of this book were so weak, it took all that I could muster not to cringe. Also, some of the specifics seemed very similar to older story/concepts like "Stargate" and the like, without any efforts of improvement or development. Because of this, I would have to say the transition from more "fantasy" to this "sci-fi" genre has left Ms. Meyer "out of her element."
"The Host" is marketed as ADULT fiction and strays from the vampire-genre completely. However, making the protagonist slightly older than teen-aged and removing high school as the setting does not necessarily "mature" the subject matter.
I found a similarity between "The Host" and the "Twilight" saga (particularly "Eclipse," book 3)in that the main characters in both novels were conflicted with their inner-natures as well as feeling divided between two very different types of love.
However, the mechanics of the science-fiction aspect of this book were so weak, it took all that I could muster not to cringe. Also, some of the specifics seemed very similar to older story/concepts like "Stargate" and the like, without any efforts of improvement or development. Because of this, I would have to say the transition from more "fantasy" to this "sci-fi" genre has left Ms. Meyer "out of her element."
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