I know the general rule in life is to not trust such sites as Wikipedia, but something I read on there has made me scream with annoyance. [Sorry, but it's Stephenie Meyer related. =P]
Apparently she’s doing TWO sequels to her novel ‘The Host’. What? A sequel to ANOTHER one of her novels? Please, no. PLEASE, NO. NONONONONONONONONONOx100.
I reviewed The Host a while ago, so some should know what it was about. Aliens, souls, humans, love triangles, nice stuff, death, deserts, science-fiction for those who hate science-fiction, etc. But I refuse to let her do ONE sequel, let alone TWO!! Christ.
As anyone who reads will know, books are RUINED by sequels, and Meyer’s other work, Twilight, has been no exception to that rule. As much as I love both New Moon and Eclipse, they were absolute crap compared to Twilight. The Host - in my opinion - is like, better than the whole Twilight saga put together. I LOVE IT. What I loved about it most was that the story actually ENDED.. like, there was a beginning, a middle, and an end, without any decent room for a sequel. Any sequels now would just be following the characters.. not the main idea of the story in the first place! Ok, so the events of the souls on earth could be talked about in a sequel, but the whole Melanie-Jared-Wanda thing has been sorted now, so please, LEAVE IT TO REST!
I’m hoping for the life of me that Meyer doesn’t do sequels to every single one of her books, especially not The Host. I can’t stand it. Some books are better off as standalones. But is there no such thing anymore? If every bookin the world had a sequel, what would be the point in books themselves? Why not just create a MASSIVE book with everything in? I love The Host as it is, seriously!
I just hope for Meyer’s sake that these ’sequels’ will be as good as the original. Because if I read the first and don’t like it near enough as I did The Host, I will seriously boycott books forever. It’s just silly now. Totally silly. There’s only so much you can squeeze out of one set of characters. I’m depressed.
Just had to let that all out. Feel free to discuss sequels if you wish. =P
I couldn’t get through the first chapter of The Host to be honest. =P I didn’t understand what was going on in the first few pages and I just chucked the book aside. It’s overdue now, I had better get my lazy self to read the book. I love Twilight though. It’s amazing.
I found the first few chapters hard too. Once the story gets going it’s absolutely brilliant though. =]
Aimee’s last blog post; A SEQUEL?!?