Siobhan read and liked David S's review of The Host:

"I don’t know why I did it. I mean I hated twilight yet I have this physiological condition where if I get a book given to me I have to read it. Clearly I surround myself with people who love Stephanie Meyer. But I also thought, "okay, maybe sh...more I don’t know why I did it. I mean I hated twilight yet I have this physiological condition where if I get a book given to me I have to read it. Clearly I surround myself with people who love Stephanie Meyer. But I also thought, "okay, maybe she used Twilight as a training ground. she might be better now"...NOPE!

This is one of the only books I’ve ever cracked open that I simply could not finish. And I tried; I pushed myself to about the ¾ mark. But the pain…the pain was just too unbearable, I had to stop. Of course my afore mentioned condition doesn’t let me stop a book mid way through so I was forced to blind myself with a pair of chopsticks. Don’t worry, I will clean the chopsticks before I use them again.

It was Twilight all over again. No---actually it was worse. At the risk of being struck dead by God himself, I will say that I would rather re-read twilight then take another stab at this piece of monkey turd.

I will never read another Stephanie Meyer book that is written in First person. Getting in the minds of her characters makes me hate books and people.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an appointment to get a Seeing Eye dog that I will be further training to recognize the word STEPHANIE MEYER, and attack, with extreme prejudice, anyone coming near me carrying one of her books.

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