new stephanie meyer book

[vanouria.livejournal.com]

a lot of you guys have probably heard of the twilight books, the insanely popular unbelievably shamelessly crappy vampire novels. anyway the author has come out with a new book and i was reading the summary and parts of it have some glaring resemblances to our favorite parasite species.

NOTE: i'm not trying to say she copied animorphs or even that she had it in mind while writing this! i just wanted to post it because it reminded me of animorphs and i'm sure you all can see the reason why.



The Host

A gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves-Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.

Comments

[vanouria.livejournal.com]

as a commenter above said, the whole parasite/host thing has been done before so i doubt she actually had animorphs in mind while writing this. i wasn't insinuating that she actually copied the idea, just that there's a similary ;)

and god, i couldn't deal with that either. i read one of the books was just so put off by the whole thing.

[convents.livejournal.com]

Well I don't think she copped the idea directly from Animorphs but she could've gotten a similar idea from it. It's just like how some people get certain ideas from other people mentioning something, etc. Except sometimes it just leads to sounding exactly as the original and mixed in with other ideas to make it sound more appealing.

But that's just my opinion :)

[cimplybe.livejournal.com]

Uhg, I've done that so many times! Either that, or I'll run with an 'original' idea for a while before realizing it poped into my head because I've seen it before, not because I came up with it. It's annoying to look back at an hour of brainstorming and realize there's not really anything new there.