An alien is placed inside a human body, but the woman it replaced refuses to go quiet
Two minds sharing one body
Earth has been quietly taken over by gentle alien beings who live inside human bodies and erase the minds they find there. When one of them, called Wanderer, is placed in a young woman named Melanie Stryder, Melanie refuses to disappear. Her memories of the man she loves and the brother she protected pull them both into the desert, toward the last free humans.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who like science fiction with a soft heart, slow-burning romance and big questions about what makes us human.
What you will get
An unusual love story set after an alien takeover, with two very different heroines sharing one head and a hidden community you will be sorry to leave at the end.
The Host Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Science Fiction · Aliens · Love triangle · Survival
Length
656 pages · ≈ 19 h
More about this book
The invasion is already over when the story begins. Peaceful alien beings, small silvery creatures, now live inside almost every human on Earth, and the world they have made is calm, honest and free of violence. Wanderer, who has lived on many planets, is placed in the body of Melanie Stryder, one of the last humans still resisting, so that she can read Melanie's memories and find the others.
Melanie, however, is still there. She argues, hides her thoughts and floods Wanderer with memories of Jared, the man she loves, and Jamie, her little brother. Slowly the invader begins to care about them too. Following Melanie's clues, Wanderer crosses the Arizona desert to a network of caves where Melanie's uncle Jeb shelters a small band of free people. They have every reason to hate her, and a Seeker from her own kind is hunting her, yet life in the caves, with its gardens, chores and friendships, changes everyone. A gentle man named Ian sees something in Wanderer that no one else does.
Patient, emotional and very different from Twilight. About 656 pages in paperback, and adapted as a film in 2013.
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