Its a love story about the alien parasite being enamored by humanity, joining their side, and falling in love all while inhabiting the body of an unwilling host whose mind refuses to fade like the rest. Not bad, but definitely still a tween romance novel.
No, it’s an existential horror novel about having your body stolen so some alien can get laid. It just has romantic tie-ins with the alien trying to get laid.
Holy shit, just reading the plot from the wiki page I can tell it was bad. Honestly the way you described it initially made it sound way more interesting, as if there was only the one alien struggling to navigate human society as it falls in love with a human.
Instead it’s full of post-societal Armageddon survivor main-character tropes that could only have been written by the same person that decided vampires sparkle instead of smolder in the sun.
Lets all take a moment and realize this same author wrote about space jelly dragons with silver ribbon sentient parasites.
Honestly that sounds better than teenage angst and sparkly vampires.
Its a love story about the alien parasite being enamored by humanity, joining their side, and falling in love all while inhabiting the body of an unwilling host whose mind refuses to fade like the rest. Not bad, but definitely still a tween romance novel.
No, it’s an existential horror novel about having your body stolen so some alien can get laid. It just has romantic tie-ins with the alien trying to get laid.
The movie should have leaned into that instead of, uh, whatever it was doing.
Wait there’s a movie? Please link me a wiki page lmao
Fair warning: its as bad as the Percy Jackson movie, same vibe
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_host_2013
Holy shit, just reading the plot from the wiki page I can tell it was bad. Honestly the way you described it initially made it sound way more interesting, as if there was only the one alien struggling to navigate human society as it falls in love with a human.
Instead it’s full of post-societal Armageddon survivor main-character tropes that could only have been written by the same person that decided vampires sparkle instead of smolder in the sun.
Yeah but jelly space dragons
Pretty sure they’re referring to The Host and… yeah, it’s actually not bad.
That sounds much better!
It is better
If I didn’t know which author you were talking about id be sold on that description.