There’s enough torrid frisson in “The Host” to start major fires. Instead of vampires, it features a disconcertingly appealing alien who takes possession of a stubborn human, giving new meaning to the phrase “being of two minds.” But spiritually, “The Host” is right in step with the “Twilight” books. “The Host” departs from the earlier series in subject. The book has occupied the No.”‰ 2 and 3 spots on recent New York Times bestseller lists. “The Host,” published 12 weeks ago, is her first for adults, and it has proven to be as much a success as her “Twilight” books. A movie version of the first “Twilight” book arrives in theaters next winter. sales climbed to more than 5.3 million this year - about a searing but chaste romance between a devastatingly moral vampire named Edward and a mortal girl, Bella, the object of his tautly reined appetites. Her fans devour the books in Meyer’s “Twilight” series - U.S. Stephenie Meyer - a teetotaling stay-at-home, Mormon mother of three young sons - is the new icon of hip among avid readers intimately familiar with the Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket books.
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