Stephenie Meyer
THE HOST
Little Brown & Company (2008)
"The soul shone in the brilliant lights of the operating room, brighter than the reflective silver instrument in his hand. Like a living ribbon, she twisted and rippled, stretching, happy to be free of the cryotank. Her thin, feathery attachments, nearly a thousand of them, billowed softly like pale silver hair."
Crying when reading a book is a sure sign that the author had the power to bring characters to life, to weave a story that so grabbed me that I was invested in the outcome ... and boy, did I cry!
Definitely not my usual genre of writing ... she's kind of a cross between Isaac Asimov and Stephen King. The story is sci-fi/fantasy ... but within a chapter or two, I was right there with the last rebel cell of humans on a planet Earth taken over by "the hosts".
It's a magnificent love story ... between host and human ... love everlasting between human and human in the face of death ... and a story that transcends into a definition of sorts of the most unconditional aspects of the broader sense of the word "love" ...
An absolute must read!
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