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Of Stephenie Meyer's books, which one is better? Twilight or The Host?
Chelsea Slone Chelsea Jun 03, 2012 08:38PM
I personally prefer The Host because I love reading it and it is very interesting. I admire Stephenie Meyer because I don't know how she came up with such brilliant stuff. She has an awesome imagination.



The Host alll the way! It is definitely better. I read the series and The Host very long ago and even though the memory of both are fuzzy but the of the two The Host stuck.


The Host was well and truly BEAUTIFUL!Perfectly crafted characters, and you can't help but fall in love with them.And the love triangle ended the way I liked it.Ian was the most lovable and selfless character for me!


LaDana (last edited Jun 21, 2012 10:44AM ) Jun 21, 2012 10:43AM   0 votes
While I can certainly see why Twilight has captured many a teenager's heart, it was The Host that caught and kept my attention. It persuaded me to see Myers as an author of which to take note.


The Host was a book I couldnt put down. I read it long after the Twilight series (Didnt know she wrote anything else) and to me it was almost like two diff authors. I kept saying, SHE wrote twilight? AFTER this???? Wouldnt mind a sequel :)

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Mel She wrote Twilight first actually. And she plans to write a sequel I believe...
Jul 06, 2012 12:53PM · flag

The Host. It has a certain hold on people who read it. It's different, more so then sparkleing vampires.


The Host was amazing, Twilight was average


I really enjoyed the Host. I've read it twice. I also liked the Twilight series very much. The Host is about such a different topic to me that it doesn't even seem like the same Stephanie Meyer who wrote Twilight.


The Host, duh. It's a really good book.


The Twilight series was imaginative, especially her personal slant on vampire characteristics that violated previously accepted boundaries, but The Host was BRILLIANT! It may forever be eclisped by Twilght's huge fan base, but it's a much more mature theme and style. I wrestled for five years with the whole notion of reincarnation, looking at it from multitudinous angles, but she delved deeper than I had. Great characters. Great plot. And if the mark of a literary masterpiece is lasting effect, then The Host is definitley a masterpiece. One of my all-time top twenty!


I liked both books for different reasons. The Host was hard for me to get through the first hundred pages.....after that, I loved it. The different relationships among the characters was wonderful. It was hard to put down. It left me wanting more.
I love the Twilight series for a quick read, no brainer. It was a nice fictional love story.


S Jun 30, 2012 12:46PM   0 votes
The Host. No vampires, so yay! ;)


deleted member Jun 30, 2012 11:11PM   0 votes
The host


Twilight Saga. To be more specific. The short-Second life of Bree Tanner.

Oh, But I'm on Team Ian and Team Jamie. Just of the Record ;)


The host definitely!


The Host!


The Host! absolutely no contest......


The Host is better by far.


The Host was a MUCH better concept than Twilight, but the Host was written so poorly that I didn't enjoy it in its entirety. I loved the first part, but then it started to and there was no major conflict aside from Wanda not wanting the Souls to get hurt. I actually prefer Twilight.


i think there both good but the host is alittle better


Definitively The Host was better. The main character has a lot more character and the story is more profound with a stronger theme. The Host was not just romantic, but it touched in other facts of humanity, good and bad. I had a hard time reading the Twilight series, because the main character was always so weak. I enjoy books were the main character is strong and sensitive, and the host portrays that better.


I think the host shows Stephenie Meyer's ability as a writer,it really showed her story telling skills handling two characters in one, but I thought Twilight was a better book, but the host was very good too, I just think it wasn't as relatable as Twilight.


The Host definitely, not a twilight fan. not now, not ever. haha


The Host was Awesome! I haven't read Twilight because i don't think I'll like it!


twilight i couldnt get into the host, never completed totally


ughh so so hard!!! The host wins. Its just such an interesting story. but when i want to feed my heart a little somthing twilight.


I agree with ehat everyone is saying. In my opinion the Host shows what Stephine Meyer is capable of. After reading Twilight five times I went from loving it to hating it because I saw the lack of substance. The Host I can still read and it is not boring.


TWILIGHT SAGA


The Host because it was like a whole new idea, what with all the vampire thing lest and right. So I liked it better :)


I think we can all agree on this one that The Host won by a land slide:) lol


Please... as if Twilight could possibly be better than the awesomeness that is The Host.


THE HOST!!!!!!


The host


The Host is infinitely better. Twilight is all right but it doesn't really compare.


Twilight was better. The host was really good but it started off reaaaaaally slow and you have to wait until you have read more than half the book in order for the book to pick up pace and anything to really start happening.


Twilight is ok, but the host is better. There are already too many vampire books out there anyway. I think that the host is unique. I never would have thought of that idea. Who even knew it would involve a love triangle? The host is really great. I would even read it a second time just because it's so amazing.

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Ms. Foulke I STILL am dying to read it. Maybe this summer, I'll finally get the chance. ...more
Jun 13, 2013 04:37PM · flag

I was really into the whole Twilight thing when I was reading the series, and I really enjoyed it and I cried at the end because it was over and all that stuff, but now that I've read so many other books, I have to say that I don't really like the Twilight books. I don't like the main characters, Bella annoys me so much, her whole world revolves around her love interest and she doesn't care about anything else, except for the fact that she wants to be with Edward. She basically dumbed her family, because she wanted to be a vampire and live with her boyfriend forever. That's just stupid. But I loved The Host, I cried so hard and I loved the characters, especially Wanda and Ian. The Host is definitely in my top ten favorite books list. So I think that The Host is better, just because it has to do with other things rather than love, like friendship and selflessness. Wanda and Melanie were so much stronger and better characters than Bella.


I read the first Twilight book, and just didn't like it.... I picked up the Host, and I loved it.


I absolutely hate Twilight. I think Edward is controlling, manipulative, and abusive; I find Bella to be a flat, poorly-written main character. I like Jacob... until he's suddenly in love with a baby?! The series as a whole is just an overplayed, badly written story of a weak girl trying to choose between an abusive man and a man who later becomes a pedophile. The Host, on the other hand, is one of my favorite books, if not my number one. It's a story about freedom, humanity, and spirit. There is no set of good guys and bad guys, and yet the characters and the reader still have to determine right from wrong. What constitutes life and what makes us human are the core of this story; the romance simply adds to this base with the struggles Melanie and Wanda face as two beings in one body.


Personally, I like the Twilight books better because there are more of them. Although I absolutely loved The Host, it's not a book in a series. I know that the titles of the second and third books have already come, but I'm beginning to believe that the books themselves never will. So if I have to choose, I would choose the Twilight books, seeing as there are four of them. However, I LOVED both Twilight and The Host.


I vote the host! It knocked my socks off.


Definitely the Host. Would love to read more from her like this.


The Host is so freeaaking amazing! All the powerful relationships in the book are just...wow. Melanie & Jamie, Melanie & Jared, Jeb and Wanda, Wanda & Jamie, everything that had to do with Walter. Ugh I love that book.


The Host, hands down.


Twilight is better in my opinion. I couldn't get into the host at all


I must say that Stephenie Meyer's books are all fantastic but my all time favourite has to be the Host: that was just an epic read


decisions decisions.......


I think The Host is a better book but the movie was horrid. Like kick you in the crotch spit on your neck awful! To be fair, I don't really like the Twilight movies either but I can watch them and laugh at how awful they are. The Host is just unbearable

sn: SO over the love triangles!


The Host was one of my all time favorite reads of last year so I would definitely have to say The Host because it's a very unique
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I really enjoyed reading The Host.


The Host, I thought it was going to be bad and too much like the 5th wave but it really isn't
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