In Theory, there is no Practice.

Finished Listening To: The Host, Stephenie Meyer (Audio). 3.5 of 5 stars. It was good. The secret was directly along the line of what I expected. The reason for revealing it surprised me slightly, thought the characters involved didn’t. The very ending was interesting, kind of a tweak for fans of this generic story.

I’ve now read 5 of Stephenie Meyer’s books, and I have to say I do like the main characters. I think she does a good job of developing them and giving me a reason to care about them. I am not sure about her plotting / stories though. The first 2 Twilight books, Twilight and New Moon, were realy good at both character development and story (though I have never really gotten the whole Edward thing, so he’s pretty, why does she love him)? Jacob was maybe the best character in the series, and certainly the one I cared about most. Eclipse was okay, but none of the characters really did much in the was of changing. Breaking Dawn was all about change, but even then, Jacob was the best and most satisifying. I really liked the overall story in Twilight Series, but I really wanted a happy ending, so that is not to say I thought it was great literature. 

In The Host, again the main character(s) are in love, but why?

The Host actually had a better story than Twilight Series, but it dropped off toward the fairly predictable end. To be fair, there were only a few possible facts to be permuted for the ending:

Note: these are not all orthogonal
• Melanie Alive/Dead
• Wanderer Alive/Dead
• Humans Free/Caught
• Wanderer Free/Caught

Doubt I will listen to this one again, but I really enijoyed it once through. Do you want to know what I will/have listened to multiple time?

Have
• The Hobbit (>2 times heard, no idea how many times read)
• The Lord of the Rings (>2 times heard, no idea how many times read)
• The Dark Tower Series (2x heard for all seven, more than that for a couple of the others)
• The Sharing Knife series (2x heard for all seven, more than that for a couple of the others)
• Pilgrim’s Progress (>2 times hearda)

Probably Will
• Old Man’s War Series
• Rachel Morgan Series (planning to just before next book comes out at the latest)