I like the word 'Wanderer'

I have writer's block. I guess I'm just excited that it's Easter weekend. My whole family is spending Easter far away from me. It's not so bad because they'll make up for it with goodies. :p It just sucks that they're seeing places I haven't seen and in better weather! Anyway, I'll write more after Easter. I'll just add a book review for now.

I know that I had some strong opinions about the Twilight series. I still went ahead and read 'The Host' by Stephanie Meyer. It had her signature love triangle and annoyingly self-sacrificing-for-love’s sake type of heroine and I usually don’t like stories about anything taking over human bodies but I found the book interesting. The book had a references to not knowing what happens when one dies and strange superior souls that took over human hosts and that they live amongst us – it has potential to be another “what if that were true?” kind of reaction. But she captured one very important insight to what humans are all about.

What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of own kind? Was it because it was exclusive and capricious? The souls offered love and acceptance to all. Did I crave a greater challenge? This love was tricky; it had no hard-and-fast rule – it might be given for free, as with Jamie, or earned though time and hard work, as with Ian, or completely and heartbreakingly unattainable, as with Jared.

Or was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire? I didn’t know why I had yearned after it so desperately. All I knew was that, now that I had it, it was worth every ounce of risk and agony it had cost. It was better than I’d imagined.

It was everything.
(p.470, The Host)

And as always, when it comes to saving a race, it involves sacrificing one willing soul. No matter how else you try and look at it.