Book Reviews

I recently finished reading two books: one a graphic novel/comic book collection and the other about aliens taking over our body.

The first was the Watchmen, which is about costumed adventurers, who are "superheroes" yet do not have any superpowers. They got together because they were sick of the crime in the city. One guy though does have superpowers because he got zapped with all this nuclear energy (Mr. Manhattan). Anyways, a nuclear war is happening, Nixon is still president (it is 1986), and someone is going around trying to kill these adventurers. Within the strips is another comic strip getting written, which mimics what is happening in the Watchmen script. It is a dark comic which after seeing the trailer for the movie, it looks like that will be just as dark AND seeing some of the effects as true to the novel as they could (which I read in Entertainment Weekly (my entertainment bible), the director really did stick to the comic book version of the story). The movie will be out in March 2009.

The other book I read I think more people will probably prefer. It is The Host by Stephenie Meyer. She wrote the very popular young adult series "Twilight" which is about vampires. The Host is about these aliens who take over human bodies (hosts) with their souls. They are non-violent souls, except the whole taking over the entire earth population. The host's minds are read by the souls to discover where other humans are hiding, and then eventually the humans thoughts go away. But in this soul's host, the human won't leave and the love she has for her boyfriend and brother consume the soul until she goes out to find them. You'll have to read the book to find out what happens!