an early 2000s YA novel funny moment: stephanie meyer writing a sci fi novel about sapient little wormy parasite aliens taking over the world by controlling the bodies of their hosts and one of the parasites grappling with the memories and consciousness of its human host, which sounds surprisingly promising until you read it and understand that despite everything stephanie meyer is still mormon
this post is literally holding a shaking gun to my head. but i absolutely need to hear more, please continue
nothing particularly striking like twilights weird abstinence themes, the disappointment is more in how unremarkable it is. the basic concept is a really strange and interesting scenario and then you actually read it and its just really boring boneless YA dystopia that somehow manages to feel exactly like twilight and ends with the alien parasite brainworm het dating
also they say that there were giant spiders but “whoops all the giant spiders died flying to earth, sorry :)”
i honestly thought i had no expectations low enough for meyers to disappoint, and yet here we stand