This book is brilliant. Sort of a soft sci-fi, with the focus on what it is to be human. It reminded me a lot of the Tomorrow when the war began series, with a secret community hiding out from a hostile society. The writing style was simple and easy to read, similar to the Harry Potter series, and I imagine it probably would come under the same sort of literary criticism :)
The premise is great - a super-intelligent race of parasitic beings colonizing planets through secret implantation of their hosts. The 'souls' want to experience life as their host, not take over or massively change the planet, something their human hosts don't realise or appreciate.
This book was Amazon best of the month for May 2008. It is going to make an awesome movie one day.
4.5 stars.
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