whereabouts---

the sky is clear and possibly the typhoon has eluded the north. this country is just so typhoon stricken and yeah what's new right? the painters finished painting the exterior of our house last week making the house pop. i love it. the house never looked so good from the outside. i have finished reading the host and it was out there.

the host...

wanderer was assigned to a host named melanie stryder. every soul (resembles a centipede except the silver color) is carefully placed into a human body through a short incision below the back of the neck. the human body will then serve as a host thus coined the book's title. the earth was invaded by their kind because we lost the war with the seekers (aliens). they have their own 'terms' for whatever we have on earth such as a healing facility or hospital; a healer or doctor; comforter, a shrink...and so on and so forth. during wanderer's first day in melanie's body, she was confused because she's able to speak with melanie through thoughts. melanie is able to show picture/scenes of her life before she jumped off the elevator to wanderer.

wanderer was introduced to jared, melanie's partner (in her past life) and jamie, her little brother through memories stored in melanie's brain thus explained the strong urge for wanderer to find her family whatever it takes. wanderer's ordeal in melanie's body almost cost her life hadn't jeb, (melanie's blood uncle) found her in the dessert. jeb took wanderer to their cave to the human's strong disapproval because they believe that, she will serve as bait for the seekers to find them. in the long run, wanderer was then accepted by the humans after learning melanie is still somewhere inside her despite being a host for a soul. wanda (a nickname given by jeb to wanderer) has a soft spot for jamie because of melanie. through jamie, jared learned that melanie still exist and the former's hostility turned into compassion. one night, wanda went to a healing facility, purposely hurt herself to show her wounds and scratches so she could steal medicines for jamie who was hurt during one of their raids, his wound was infected and wanda instinctively volunteered to get medications for the poor kid.

wanda's solution (so humans and her kind won't be hurt) was to surgically remove the soul from the host and transport it to another planet. wanda instructed the rest of his human family to steal excess cryo tanks as placeholders for souls once taken out from its host. wanda requested from a human doctor to send her soul to this flower planet as she would enjoy it there but to ian's anger and dispproval because she loves wanda and refuses to be separated from her neither regardless which form she takes. in the end jamie joined in of the raids and picked a host for wanda's soul, the body which most likely resembles melanie, a human body which no longer belongs to anyone. the story ended fairly--ian got her wanda in a different host while jared recovered her melanie.

some excerpt from the books..

wanda's past lives:

“She's lived on six planets.”
“I heard seven.”
“I heard she's never lived two terms as the same host species.”
“Is that possible?”
“She's been almost everything. A Flower, a Bear, a Spider –”
“A See Weed, a Bat –”
“Even a Dragon!”
“I don't believe it–not seven planets.”


other stuff i read from the book:

- Burns Living Flowers, Cloud Spinner, Petals Open to the Moon---quite a few names of souls occupying a host.
- no pain, an anaesthesia.
- clean, liquid to clean wounds (kinda like hydrogen peroxide i guess).
- Spiders and Dragons, Fire World,Blind World, Planet of the Bats-- names of some of the planets