No this is not a rave or rant about Twilight mania that has overtaken tweens world over. There was a follow up book - The Host - by the same author. It was gifted to me, and I didn't mind Twilight too much, so I read through all 500+ pages.
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And I was very disappointed. The woman has the same theme - one set of survivors (~vampires) and another set of people who outnumber them on the planet (~humans) and how they try to keep their secret. Only in this case, its the earth which has been invaded by these tiny silver sliverish creatures called 'souls' that are 'inserted' into a human host, causing the host's memories to become their own but causing the host's own conscience to eventually die as the soul takes control of the body. As if that sci-fi cliche wasn't enough, far in a very Independence-Day-esque desert there is a cache of survivor humans.It gets worse. Melanie (~Bella) a former human who is now a host to the soul Wanderer refuses to die. The soul is hanted by her presence as they both jostle for control of the body. Melanie starts winning out, driving Wanderer to the place where the cache is, to check if the love of Melanie's life and her baby brother are alive. Once they reach the cache, she is captive as they don't believe Melanie exists within her. And of course, the above mentioned love, Jared, is conflicted about seeing Melanie - who he was sure was dead - alive but not quite, herself. Worse still, another human, Ian falls in love with Wanderer - not Melanie. So Jared and Ian are in love with 2 separate people in the same body. Which leads to some form of humour (saving grace) when Melanie/Wanderer have physical trysts with Jared/Ian, with one of the 2 women in the body always getting grossed out by the desires of the other.But honestly, Stephanie (no, no, don't get confused, that's the author's name), what the hell? Twilight was dumbed down vampire fiction for girls. What are you even targeting with this book? Its too juvenile for adults, too romantic for boys and too sci-fi for girls and too boring for people like me. At best, it would make a passsable movie, if you brought some grown men to the scriptwriting sessions.