The Host: a review

I hesitate to even call this a review because I don't know if I know how to discuss the book without giving away too much information. I'll do my best. I really enjoyed it. It's kind of funny, I feel like I didn't enjoy it as much as Twilight, however, I felt it was a better book. Wrap you mind around that! It's possible that I feel that way because while the love story in Twilight kept me all a-flutter the whole time The Host was more thought provoking. I've read plenty of Science Fiction and this is my first one written by a woman, and I think it shows. The imagery of the aliens' lives and voyages seem, at least to me, much more fantastic and beautiful than any I've read before. In an interesting twist, the main character is Wanderer and she is one of many alien "parasites" that lives in the body of human hosts. The aliens have taken over pretty much the whole world. They saw the human race as too violent and felt they could do a better job. I'm always wary of books that try to stereotype humans as "evil" or whatever. I started to read a book like that but couldn't get past the first chapter in which all the magical creatures got together and bad-mouthed the humans. Look, we're not perfect but if you want me to read your book maybe you should lay off the insults. However, the difference was that while that was obviously the view of the aliens, the actual human characters were much more complicated than that. One major theme that Stephanie Meyer brushed over a few times is that everything in life has an opposite. True joy cannot be felt unless you've experienced the opposite.
On a side note: It's funny that I seem to be rolling my eyes at some of the over the top drama that could only come from a female, at the same time totally seeing myself in a lot of the thought processes. Complex indeed.