Fantasy Romance Books

I read books for fun and this book became an obsession. It brought me into another world. I actually felt the feelings of each of the characters. After I was finished with Twilight it left me burning for more. I have never really been a person who was into the whole vampire type thing but the way this book is written I can say I am actually a fan now. Even if you don't think you can get into this book based on the fact you don't like supernatural things, think twice because I guarantee you will love this book and series. I definately recommend this book.

I could not put this book down. I read it in less than a week, then rushed out to buy New Moon and devoured it in less than a week. I would have read them in just two days if I didn't have to go to work! I love the characters and the stories are amazing. There is real depth to the characters, they are real and relatable. I am only saddened by the fact that there are only 4 book in this series.

I foolishly bought this knowing it was regarded as "young adult" reading. If you are an adult, this book will bore you to the core. There is no build up of excitement, or realistic language. And it does seem to linger in spots that don't call for it. I can see this being a good teenage read or for someone a little more sensitive to profanity, but seeing as I am not a teenager anymore and not at all sensitive to profanity, I can't fully appreciate this book for what it is. I should really give it one star from an adult perspective and four for young adult. I felt it lacked a little in personality.
If you are looking as an older person, for a more upfront vampire mystery and more to the point read, I'd go for Charlaine Harris's "Sookie Stackhouse" series. It kept me interested, which is what good books are about. I rated that one with a four, but am going to change it to a five the more I think about it. It's a great and exciting read. A fast paced, strange, yet more believable love story. And the show 'True Blood' on HBO based on the book series is awesome.

I know they say don't judge a book by its cover, but that's actually why I decided to buy this book. I loved the contrasting colors and simple design of the cover. I bought this book on a whim, never having heard of the author or the series. I was actually pretty disappointed. I read almost any kind of book, both within the adult and young adult sections, and I almost always enjoy/like books I read. This book was just boring, and repetitive for me (the language itself is just very repetitive and dull); and not truly original. I have read other books with similar plot lines, although if the characters had been likable for me, I could have gotten over that. I didn't like the main character... she was just very shallow and I didn't understand her obsession over Edward. Edward was just a pretty face, pretty boring in terms of all the male characters I've read about over the years. It's been a long while since I read the book, and I have had no desire to even pick it up again (in fact, I've lost it). Usually I will either completely reread a book, or reread scenes I liked, but with some books I just put them down and forget about them once I'm done. I would have done this with Twilight if not for all the press about it in Entertainment Weekly and elsewhere, and all the hype about it. I always hate it when a book I read is mediocre for me and just the best book ever for someone else; I always feel like people who think that's good won't even look for anything better. I've known people who read only one series of books for fun, such as the Harry Potter books (which I found good, but not up to the hype), and never read anything else. I don't want that to happen with Twilight - people need to read more, there's so many good books out there.

I recommend checking it out from the library if you're curious as to whether or not you'll like it. Just because it fell flat for me doesn't mean it won't hit the spot for you.

I guess I asked for it by choosing to read a young adult book. Simply stated: If you are over the age of 15 this book is way way too foolish and immature for you!! Pages and pages of mindless, annoying, teenage angst. I have never found a book character as irritating as Bella. She has no depth, nothing to make her stand out as anything special or likable. She's not talented, smart, clever, or funny. She's stupidly clumsy and rather bitchy and not too friendly for being a new kid in town. I found myself wondering why someone as OH SO perfect as Edward would fall for her. He's got the body of a 17 year old boy but shouldn't he have the wisdom and maturity of a 100+ year old man since he has been around for that long? Seriously. Why did HE act like a teenager??

One minute they are glaring and glowering and scowling at each other, and the next they are professing their deep (and unhealthy/ psychotically obsessed) undying love.

Also if I had to read one more time how gorgeous, perfect, flawless and stunning Edward was I would have screamed and vomited. It really was torture to finish it. I will not be reading the rest of the series.

If I had a daughter that was in her early teens I would NOT want her reading this book. It really paints an unhealthy picture of love. It's almost saying love is like this dark obsession and it's OK to let everything else go when you are that young as long as you've got your man. And don't even get me started on the fact that she'd rather become a blood-sucking crazed vampire than stay with her mother and father and try to make something out of herself.

Bella just got worse with every page and went all the way to the end when she got red-hot mad at Edward for taking her to the prom! Then she cried because she thought they were all dressed up so he could sink his teeth into her and have his burning venom turn her into a vampire and they can live happily ever after; Yes, the two of them hunting grizzly bears and mountain lions together with their bear hands and teeth and shredding them apart and drinking their blood. The end.

This book was absolutely the best, by far, that I have read in a long time. All four in this series is a five star!!! It takes you away from reality for a little while, which makes it all the better!! I am the mother of a 14 year old daughter and wanted to know what all the rage was about in these books, now I know!! These books are intoxicating!! You absolutely fall in love with these characters!! I also applaud the author for some of the morals used in these books, for instance marriage before sex. I have read some of the negative reviews that were posted and a lot of them said that this book is not good because all ends well. I personally think it ended great, there is so much heart break in the real world let us read something that has a happy ending for a change! Stephenie Meyer is a very talented author!!! Wonderful read!!!

I didn't get around to reading the book until recently, so I am obviously not a rabid fan. In fact, I found the second book to be excruciating, and the third felt like filler, but, I'm not one to leave a series unfinished... And I had heard that some people weren't happy with the last book, so I was curious to see what all the talk was about. And after I read Breaking Dawn, I still wasn't sure why people were so upset. I felt like this was perhaps the best one of the series. It was the most interesting, the most engaging, and had the most developed plot of just about all of the books. Bella finally stopped being an immature, annoying whiner, there was a minimum of melodramatic pining, and she wasn't this uselessly weak character anymore. And that is why so many people didn't like this book. What I found annoying and unnecessary and a weakness in the other novels is what so many of you romance lovers connected to, so since the melodramatic romance was at a minimum in Breaking Dawn, of course you guys wouldn't like it as much. But, really, if you look at things objectively, this is one of her best written books and certainly the most engaging for me, personally...

I LOVED IT!!!! I don't understand what all the negative comments are about. IT IS A FANTASY. I am glad I didn't listen to any of them, because I would have missed a great book. I could not put it down. I kept wanting to go the end to look to see how it turned out. Loved the happy ending. I will read the series again.

I've got to say that, having NEVER rated a book here before, I just couldn't resist once I read those less than 'glowing' reviews of this book, and, basically of this Twilight Saga. Come on people! THESE ARE THE BEST! It's fiction! Didn't you just want to read it to enjoy being absorbed in a fantastic STORY of make believe? I think too many are over analyzing this series. I'm a voracious reader, and, at my teenaged daughter's promptings, decided to read this series of books. I've thanked her daily this past week as I devoured all four of them within 7 days! If you're a 'hopeless romantic' - which I'm NOT embarassed to say that I am - and someone who loves to read as a fun, entertaining escape from reality, then I couldn't recommend these books any more than I have. And believe me, I've been recommending them to everyone I've been speaking to this last week. I couldn't get enough of them, and know that the characters that Stephenie has created here will remain in my heart for YEARS to come. I don't care what anyone may think about me with my 'old-fashioned' morals and ideas, but I loved that she waited until AFTER she was married to engage in sex, that she loved being a mother, and that she adored Edward and her 'family'. I agree that she's now got forever to go to college and enjoy anything else her immortality can offer her. So, bottom line for me...it was a TERRIFIC BOOK, and, to quote the name of the last chapter, "The Happily Ever After" that I, personally, was wishing for on this AMAZING saga. WAY TO GO Stephenie!! Can't wait to see the movie!!

Best book in the series. I totally loved this story. Of all four books it is my favorite. It really pulls everything together and you find that you really can love all the characters. So many times in the other books I just wanted to slap Bella or Jacob but in the last book it all came together well. You have got to read this book!!

I think this is the best book in the Twilight Series. I literally could not put it down. I'm glad I bought the hard back copy because I will definiitely want to read it again and again.

Wow, what can I say. I really loved this book. I was surprised, I am 44 and started reading the twilight series by chance just for something to do while my husband watched football. I became so engrossed in the books that I read all 4 in just 6 days. The amazing thing is I am not a reader. These were the first books I have read in more than 5 years.

I cannot recommend these books by SM enough. They are so vividly discriptive and she teases you so well by writing almost what you want to happen and then pulling back at the right moment.

I am a Jacob Black fan. The way SM has written the series I am always pulling for him and I feel so much compassion for his character.

The sequel of the Twilight Saga did not disappoint.

I first read Stephanie Meyer's "Host" and loved it so much I couldn't wait to read more from her. I purchased the "Twilight Saga and read all four books. They were all great.

She writes from a first person prespective and you come to love the characters, especially the innerworld of the heroine. She begins as a teenager with all the self-consciousness, weaknesses, and foibles of a teen. She is the definition of a clutz.

Through each successive book you watch her grow and mature into a really wonderful adult heroine.

These books are full of monsters, many of which I came to love.

I can't wait to see what Stephanie Meyer comes up with next.

Edward/Bella/Jacob "love" triangle? Whatever... We finally got the backstories for Jasper and Rosalie! And we had wolfpeople (a wolfwoman too, that's right) and vampires working together! This is the stuff of good, cheesy Halloween movies.

A good book? Eh. It was kind of more of the same, which, for me, made it pretty forgettable. I only finished it less than 2 weeks ago, and I already have a hard time remembering what exactly happened in the book. Can't even remember it well enough to do my girl/boy/friend stuff from my New Moon review. Oh well... At least it's time for it all to come to an exciting conclusion in the final book... Right?

I am not an adolescent girl, and usually get impatient with the endless tension (usually born of bad communication skills or stupidity, or both) that is Romance. Somehow these books transcend my usual reading preferences. Though, unlike many readers, I thought the last book in the series was the best of the bunch. My reward for three books of somehow, against-my-will, engrossing angst.

i read the first book and enjoyed it. But the second bookleft a lot to be desired. Too many characters,too much subplots. I gave up about half way thru!!!

This book was a waste of my time. Bella really gets on my nerves because of her constant whining and depression. It was so boring and it was all angsty. The book was totally pointless!!!!!!

Personally, I tried very hard to resist the Twilight series. I generally don't go for Young Adult Lit., and I generally don't go for fads. But, I gave in. And I am not ashamed to say, I loved it! I love all the books. What I don't get is why people cannot just take these books for what they are...stories. I highly doubt Stephanie Meyer was aiming at the Pulitzer Prize when writing this series. So, why does every pretentious wanna be book critic on here have to rip them apart for not being literary masterpieces? Why can't people just enjoy a good book because it is that...a good book? Maybe there are some crazies out there who feel like they can never fall in love with a real man now that they have met Edward Cullen. But so what? There are always going to be people who think fictional lives are better than their own lives. That doesn't take away from what these books are. GOOD STORIES; a good escape from the everyday boredom of life. Isn't that what books are supposed to be? If the only reason you read a book is because you are waiting to rip it apart, you should just quit reading. Reading is entertainment, and these books are highly entertaining. I think Meyer's should get her props and everyone should just shut up about the supposed lack of literary merit.

New Moon is a really great book! I'm waaay past "young adult" and still have enjoyed this series so far.

Bought book for gift and recipient was very happy with this gift. Book arrived quickly and in excellent condition. Would purchase again for reading or a gift. Keep up the good work.

If it hadn't been for the HBO series TrueBlood I probably never would have started this series. I enjoyed this book as much as I did the first one - Sookie is probably one of the most likable characters I've come across in ages. Charlaine Harris writes clever dialogue and I was hooked from page one. Looking forward to reading the next in the series...

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I'm giving this book the same review I gave the first book in the series... I'm going to give the books time to grow on me only because the show on HBO is great and I can't wait to see what happens. People keep telling me to stick with it because the later books are better reads , and I'm going to try my best, but good gosh the books are not that great. Conversations and actions are choppy, and the story just doesn't flow right. When I'm done reading the entire series and if I change my mind I will also change my review, but as of right now this series gets a 2 Star from me.

I read the first in this series, "Dead Until Dark" and loved it. This installment "hooked me".

Sookie finds herself seriously attacked by a "creature" and is saved from a certain death by the vampires by a quite unusual approach. Sookie and Bill find themselves with a job to do for Eric (Bill's Vampire boss). This job takes Sookie and Bill to Dallas where they try to locate a missing vampire. They end up finding quite more than they bargained for including a church against vampires.

There's also the murder of her co-worker that she needs to get to the bottom of and she finds herself in a very interesting sitution with Eric. And he's quite different than her vampire Bill boyfriend. All I can say is "wow". I definetly want to see more of Eric. (which is surprising because I Bill is a great character, and Sookie's first love.)

Another super installment of the Southern Vampire series. If you weren't hooked after the first one, this one will definetly pull you in.

In so many ways, this second of Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mysteries is a huge step down from the first. Having established an atmospheric small town existence for protagonist Sookie Stackhouse and her vampire boyfriend, Harris promptly takes them out of that environment and sends them to Dallas for a dull, seemingly endless adventure. I can see shaking things up a bit and changing a series' venue, but not in the second installment. And the Dallas episode is bookended by a murder mystery so lackluster and pointless that I'm not sure why it's even part of the plot to begin with. First of all, Harris kills off one her more interesting characters, one with whom she could have gained a lot of future mileage if she'd just kept him alive. And by cramming two plot lines into one book, Harris end ups undermining both, to the point that we care about neither. I also wish Sookie were more of an amateur detective; she "solves" the crimes by reading people's minds, which happens to be a particular ability of hers. This feels like cheating to me; I prefer my sleuths to use their innate intellectual and intuitive skills. Imagine if Hercule Poirot had simply been able to read minds, rather than figure things out by using his "little grey cells." Harris has a terrific sense of humor, and has invented some fun characters here, but what makes a good mystery for me is the actual mystery; if the rest of the series is as dissatisfying and sloppy as "Living Dead in Dallas," I don't see any reason for sticking with it.

So first off the only reason I'm even wasting my time with these books is because I am totally hooked on the HBO series and I don't want to wait years to find out what happens (even though the show is really nothing like the books)...SPOILER ALERT!!! The smartest thing Sookie has done thus far is when she "rescinded" (took back) the invitation into her house from Bill and Eric, which by the way I have never read a vampire book where that is even possible. I keep hoping one of these books will actually be a good read, but holy cow I'm having a hard time justifying the waste of time!

I liked this almost as much as my favorite so far in this series, (book 4 - Dead to the World).

Sookie's boyfriend, Vampire Bill goes out of town on business and turns up missing. Sookie agrees to help find him and works with Eric (Bill's Vampire Boss) and several others, including a werewolf named Alcide.

Finding out the circumstances why Bill left in the first place (from Eric) leaves Sookie upset and somewhat heatbroken, but Sookie's a good person and wants to do the right thing.

Sookie heads to "Club Dead" to listen in on the minds of others to see if she can learn anything about Bill's disappearance. Of course Sookie gets herself in many dangerous and deadly situations during her hunt for Bill, but makes more friends (and a couple enemies) in the supernatural world along the way.

In this series, you're drawn into the supernatural world, learning much more about the Vampire heirarchy, politics and culture. This installment is smart, sexy, humorous, fun and gripping ---as are all the others in this series.

OK - I'm officially hooked on the Sookie Stackhouse series. "Club Dead" did not disappoint. I know some readers were disappointed with Bill, but you have to admit it's pretty funny that even a dead guy will cheat - come on, you're alive for eternity but can't stay faithful for a lousy couple of months!!!! Snappy dialogue, great characters, total escape. I'd be reading book 4 right now but this series has become so popular with HBO's Trueblood that the book stores in my neck of the woods have sold out! I'll be stalking my mailman until it hits my mailbox.

When I started reading the book, I had already read some reviews and knew that Bill and Sookie were facing a tough time. I didn't want to read it, because I thought they shouldn't change in their relationship at all.
Boy was I wrong: Introducing Alcide and more of Eric, it makes for better scenes and also helps Sookie's development and growing up. She seemed sulky at times and stubborn when she couldn't get Bill to do what she wanted - but this book explains more about the nature of the *beast* and how they are trying to fit into the mortal world. I can't wait to read the other books, but if you were hesitant about picking up another Sookie Stackhouse volume after book 2 - give it another go with Club Dead!

Phew! This is a marked improvement from "Living Dead in Dallas," the muddled sequel to Charlaine Harris's terrific first Sookie Stackhouse "mystery." I'm putting the word in quotes, because that's still the area in which Harris falls short for me. Oh, there's a dead body all right, but how it got dead and whodunit is ultimately a big "who cares?" That said, "Club Dead" is a fun ride, much more in keeping, stylistically, with the first in the series. And we're introduced to a great new character, a hunky werewolf who may or may not get in the way of Sookie and Bill's romance. One thing that does bother me a little: Harris is remarkably sadistic to her heroine. This is the third Sookie Stackhouse book, and the third in which she's beaten to a bloody pulp. Literally. OK, James Bond gets beaten up on a regular basis, as do a lot of other detectives/spies etc., but Sookie's just a normal person. Sure, she keeps some dangerous company, but there seems to be a mean streak in Harris that I'm not all that comfortable with. "Club Dead" renewed my interest in this series, but I'm hoping that as time goes by, Harris is a little less hard on Sookie. I'm sure Sookie is, too.

i could take it are leave vampire books ,but i have falling completely in love with charlaine stories of southern vampire bill and sookie strange love story.i also got into watching true blood every sunday night.so i'm totally hook waiting for book two.

I first decided to pick up this book after i had heard about the HBO series being made. I was going off to college so i didn't think i was going to get a chance to watch it so i thought the next best thing to do would be to read the book. I started out liking vampire books how most girls start out.... with twilight. Seeing as there are no more to read i thought i would try something new. If i thought this story was going to be something along the lines of twilight i was dead wrong. When i picked this book up i couldn't put it down. Going to class was a pain for the fact that i would have to stop reading for a certain amount of time. I would say that it's more of an adult book with more adult content than twilight is but that doesn't mean that its all porn. This story was exciting and kept me guessing all the time. And it was a thrill when i got up to college and found out that our rooms get HBO so after finishing the book i was able to start watching the show.
I really enjoyed it and suggest it for anyone looking for a good thriller.

I too, am one of those people who first tuned into the show, before realizing it was based on a book series. I have to admit I became engrossed in the show. I like most HBO shows for their dark take on stories and exaggerated 'realism'. But, I especially liked this one. I did however think the show though, had an 'irrelevant to the plot development' amount of graphic sex that didn't do much for the interesting story line, but nonetheless I really really liked it. I haven't been drawn to a scifi type show in, well -forever. Especially vampires. But I'd be rating Alan Ball, the creator, on that I guess...

Anyway, to my point... I bought the first book after loving the first couple of episodes... I thought it gave a realistic as far as people go view on the south in some respects, and I came to see the southern setting rather 'romantic' after watching the show and reading the first book actually. Which has taken me a while considering I am from the south Maybe I have a morbid sense of romanticism, but it's a good story and show if you have HBO... Sookie's speech can be a little contradicting to her somewhat intelligent thoughts, but it's kind of endearing. I thought some of the sex scenes, like the show, were a few too many... Sort of like filler...

Overall- I think it's a good mystery and love story and I plan on buying the next book in the series...

I bought this book because I've seen 4 episodes of true blood on HBO and I liked it. I figured that I might as well read the books because books are always better than the shows or movies that are based off of them. Right? Not in this case.

The main charachter is anoying, and very contradictory. Sometimes shes very stupid and other times shes very smart. I really don't understand where shes coming from most of the time. That charachters that have the potential to be the most intresting (Vampires) are not properly used. I want to know more about these guys I want a better backstory and honestly it just wasnt there. Im not saying that the characters were written poorly but they have so much potential that its a let down reading about them and seeing how little depth the author decided to give them.

There is a ridiculous amount of sex in this book, but its poorly written sex. I found that it to be the kind of sex that a fifteen year old boy would write about. I dunno I just didnt find the sex that intresting and honestly it was pages wasted that could have been devoted to something like I dunno charachter development.

The story itself is intresting and managed to keep me reading. All in all It was a decent book that left me feeling disapointed at the end. Im going to have to read the next book to see if things improve if not I guess I'll stick to the show

I'm going to give the books time to grow on me only because the show on HBO has me hooked and I can't wait to see what happens. People keep telling me to stick with it because the later books are better reads , and I'm going to try my best, but good gosh the books are not that great. Conversations and actions are choppy, and the story just doesn't flow right. When I'm done reading the entire series, and if I change my mind I will also change my review, but as of right now this series gets a 2 Star from me.

As I have said in my last three reviews on the previous books the only reason I putting myself through the time consuming cloud of these novels is because I love the show on HBO and don't want to wait years to find out what happens (even though the show seems like a different story at times). I was surprised though that this book was actually better then the first three. The story wasn't as choppy and Sookie seems to be acting her age and not like a baby. I am also surprised at how much I like Eric. The producers of the "True Blood" series didn't in my opinion choose the right man for the role. Here's hoping that every book in the series improves like this one did!

I absolutely loved this book and it's my favorite so far in this series. Sookie is an incredible character. She's sweet, smart, sassy and doesn't take any crap from anyone. She's also a telepath, which makes her even more interesting.

She finds Eric, a gorgeous vampire leader who been interested in her past and she happens to have a blood bond with. When she finds him, she realizes, Eric doesn't remember anything at all. She agrees to keep him safe at her house until they can find out who/what's responsible for his memory loss. Eric's new personality makes him absolutely dreamy, but Sookie knows that this may only be temporary.

As if Sookie didn't have enough to deal with, her brother Jason turns up missing and the circumstances seem to point to foul play. So Sookie must find out what happened to her brother and deal with the Eric situation.

In this book we are introduced to more "supes". Supernaturals, like werewolfs, shapeshifters, fairies and witches. While the vampires are the most interesting, the supes really add to the story.

Most of the Supes (especially the vamps) seem to love Sookie, and because Harris does a great job defining Sookie, it's easy to understand why they would. She gets a great deal of help from the Supernatural world to get to the bottom of Jason's disapperance and Erics memory loss.

This is a fun read and an absolute page turner. If you love this series, you won't be disappointed in this installment. One thing I can say about Harris is that she has a knack for being able to end a story leaving you satisfied, but keeping enough loose ends to continue to series. I can't wait to see what happens next.

The fourth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series has a better story and more action than book 3, but my favorite vamp, Bill Compton has maybe 5 pages in the whole book? Eric is the romantic interest in this installment and for me, that just fell flat. What saved this one for me was the introduction of the community of Hotshot and the supernatural residents.

This has to be my favorite book in the series and certainly has propelled me into reading further. It has everything a vampire murder mystery romance should have! I swear, Charlaine Harris has created a whole other book genre! :)

With this latest "Southern Vampire novel," our telepathic heroine, Sookie Stackhouse, just your average, pretty young barmaid with the "disability" of being able to read human beings' minds, finds herself still on the outs with her first love, "Vampire Bill." And I have to take my hat off to Ms. Harris, because the characters are all so well written... I could FEEL Bill's strained propreity. He's never been a big talker, always polite and genteel, and while he's made Sookie feel like a million bucks at times, he's also done a no-no and broken her heart. Enter Eric, the vampire Viking who owns the bar, "Fangtasia," and has always been a delicious flirt with Miss Stackhouse. When Sookie finds Eric half naked and suffering from a witch's curse of amnesia, Sookie inadvertantly agrees to hide Eric in her house til the other vampires can sort out the curse.

In this novel, romance is rich, the sex scenes are STEAMY, the villains are scary as ever, and the writing is so good! I got shivers when Sookie went to the backwoods town of Hotshot, an unsettling place of shapeshifters. And the clipped, green lawns of the were community in Shreveport. Everything was so clear and detailed. And the characters were VIVID! Because of Sookie's "sixth sense," I felt like I knew everyone! And my favorite flirt, Eric, gets to show his true character (in my opinion). Loved loved loved this vampire romance!

Very good story line. Of course the whole series is good in my opinion. :)

I love fantasy and science fiction, I don't like science fiction that has so many technical terms that you don't quite grasp half the novel... Stephenie Meyer creates an alternate world that is intriguing and complex, but doesn't require the reader to have various PhDs to fully appreciate what she's created. A real page turner, I couldn't put it down. It's cliché, but I laughed and cried and was very very sad when it was over. I am a Stephenie Meyer fan, and was a little worried that I wouldn't like this as much as I loved her Twilight series but was not disappointed at all, I loved this book!

I couldn't stop reading the Twilight Saga--read all 4 books in less than 3 weeks. I must say that The Host is better than the entire story arc of the Twilight Saga. I am looking forward to the sequels. I read on Stephenie's website that she already had 2 sequals in mind for The Host. Sadly, I will have to WAIT till she writes them!

When I began reading "The Host" I was very surprised to realize that this book was not anything like Stephenie Meyers: Twilight Series. I did love her other series but I do think that "The Host" is more unique and exciting. So if you were not disappointed by Stephie Meyer's other work then you will definetly be happy with this novel.

"The Host" takes place in the near future where creatures called 'souls' come to earth and take over human bodies, using them as 'hosts'. 'Souls' have traveled to dozens of other planets and can live as long as they want if they do not choose to stay in the same body for too long of a time.

The Wanderer is one of these souls who is quite popular in her civilization for being in over seven different planets with at least seven different hosts.

Melanie is Wanderer's host but she is different than any other host that Wanderer has had. Melanie can communicate, fill Wanderer's mind with dreams and occasionally take over the body for short periods of time.

With this unique occurance the two of them end up going on a journey to find Melanie's younger brother and lover. This starts the trail of finding and getting past those who cannot understand and realizing who really is the monster.

I highly recommend "The Host" and hope that you enjoy it as much as I did.

after reading the twilight series i had very high hopes for the host and it delevired. this book is amazing and i recomoned it to anyone and everyone.

when i enjoy a book it can take me maybe a day to read it. this book took me 4. but this 2was 4 timess longer than my usual books and i read it whenever i had a chance it was abolutely fantastic! i want more! kudos to the author! wow!

descent. I was way disapointed in the first four books in the series. I am hooked on "True Blood" (the HBO series thats based on the books), and I've been giving two stars, but this one deserves a slightly higher rating. Sookie is growing up and not whining as much and I have to say that I love, love, love Eric, he's what keeps me reading!

Charlaine Harris has created some of the most interesting characters you'll ever hope to meet in her Southern Vampire series starring Sookie Stackhouse and a supporting cast as varied as any you could imagine. I was hooked after the first one and eagerly await each installment. You'll laugh out loud on one page and cringe on the next. I recommend this series without hesitation. Entertaining & fun.

I love this series, and I can not wait until the next book is release.

I listened to the audio version of this book and I have to say that Johanna Parker (the reader) adds a lot! She has created a Sookie with the soft southern accent we might expect and with just the right amount of sassiness to truly bring her (and her friends) to life. The books and the plots are superficially pretty lightweight. But I just adore the character of Sookie. She is so real and she makes me laugh and cry. There's some profound wisdom in there, too. The author doesn't hit you over the head with it, but it sneaks in repeatedly - often as Sookie is thinking through things like discrimination and friendship. I owe a big thanks to another reviewer who, like me, did not appreciate "Undead and Unwed" but suggested Sookie Stackhouse as an alternative. Charlaine Harris and Johanna Parker are an awesome team and I'm taking 2 more of these on vacation with me!

I laughed my head off. This is great entertainment. Charlaine Harris is a hoot and I am looking forward to more. thank you.