The Host - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316036919 ISBN 13 : 9780316036917

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Meyer has, like one of her vampires, turned into something rare and more than merely human: a literary phenomenon....The way she manages the reader's curiosity, maintaining tension and controlling the flow of information, is simply virtuosic....People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there."―Lev Grossman, Time

"An epic story of love, family, and loyalty. . . . The Host is The X-Files meets Days of Our Lives."―Carol Memmott, USA Today

"Meyer is more interested in relationships than in flashy genre conventions. . . . Her affirmative life lesson is disarming."―Jeff Giles, Entertainment Weekly

"The Host lives up to the hype, blending science fiction and romance in a way that has never worked so well."―Jane Jorgenson, Library Journal

"Stephenie Meyer is an amazing phenomenon--out of the brightness of her mind and spirit comes the illuminated darkness of her stories. For no matter how much pain her characters suffer, Meyer infuses the tales with light and hope."―Orson Scott Card

"A fantastic, inventive, thoughtful, and powerful novel. The Host should come with a warning label: it will grab you and keep you reading well into the wee hours of night, and keep you thinking, deeply, hauntingly, well after the final word. Stephenie Meyer captures characters and handles story line like a master--a hybrid combination of Stephen King and Isaac Asimov."
―Ridley Pearson

"A brilliant and fascinating premise.... Its mix of adventure and new love on a new Earth is just right to get lost in this summer."―Sherri Hallgren, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is the near future, and the earth has been invaded and conquered by a peaceful but pernicious species. The "souls" take over the minds of their human hosts while retaining their bodies and outward appearances. The human race as we know it--where human minds rule their own bodies--has been all but extinguished.
As the novel opens, we meet Wanderer, one of the invading "souls" who has just awoken inside a human. She was forewarned about the challenges of living inside a human--the overwhelming emotions, the stunning physical responses, the glut of senses, the too vivid dreams and memories. However, there was one challenge Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body, human survivor Melanie Stryder, refuses to fade away into oblivion the way she should.
Melanie lingers as an angry presence in Wanderer's head, holding on to her human secrets and filling Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves-Jared, another human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for the man she's never met. Outside forces combine to make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, and, working together, they set off to search for the man they both love.
What happens next is what fuels this gripping novel, featuring what is possibly the first love triangle in literature that only involves two bodies.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown and Company
• ISBN 10: 0316036919
• ISBN 13: 9780316036917
• Reliure: Broché