The Host

I did it. I bought The Host.

You see, already being a fan of Stephenie Meyer, this shouldn’t be at all the climactic and unexpected action it is. But I was fully prepared to let the hype pass me by. It was Sci-Fi; I don’t do Sci-Fi. And the whole body-snatcher-alien train of thought? I outgrew that in Animorphs some eight years ago.

I already knew that, in some massive mix-up with the UK publishers, The Host was released in some countries – Australia one of them – a full month before America (now THAT is unheard of). I knew it and yet, walking into the bookstore, my stomach disappeared – possibly evacuated my body – when I saw the book under the ‘just landed’ section. And then, somehow, I was transferring 30-something-bucks out of my account and purchasing the thing.

I couldn’t help it; the layout was so similar to the Twilight novels. I guess I bought it in a way to offset the pain of waiting for Breaking Dawn.

So far, I’ve read the first couple of chapters (even though I bought it Thursday – a record for me, I’m sure). At first I felt I was reading it under obligation – not just to my bank account, but to Meyer as well – kind of feeling detached over the whole thing, like I was watching a documentary in school again that is just dripping in apathy. But the last chapter I read saved it for me – it contained just enough intrigue to get my cogs working - only because the male lead has entered the scene, of course. What can I say? It’s a little bone given to the monster in me just waiting for Edward Cullen to appear in this story... laser beams or no laser beams.

Edward...

I’ll keep you all posted!

Stephenie Meyer's Cameo

I haven’t seen such an outburst since the days of this Kristen Stewart interview. Here I was, googling “Twilight Movie News”, hoping for something new to look at, and I stumble across an MTV blog not an hour old.

Pretty much, they spilled the beans on the Stephenie Meyer cameo in Twilight. Thinking they obviously had the authority to do such a thing, I flag it and send it to the Lexicon and a couple of other affiliated Twilight-news sites. Everyone would have find out by the next morning anyway.

I wake up this morning and there’s been this massive outrage against MTV. I almost feel sorry for the journalist who wrote it (and who probably just got handed the press release and told to write about it) and is now copping such extreme shit for it.

What I don’t get is why everyone is in such an outrage about it. Sure, it was probably Stephenie’s news to tell, and it was probably going to be a surprise, but what I don’t understand is how come no one realises that if the news is Twilight-related, it WON’T STAY A SECRET. In a way, I’m thankful they did the blog, because now I’ll know to look out for the author.