The Host- Jared Howe-slight bangin' hot spoilers

This face was a hard rectangle, the shape of the bones strong under the skin. In color it was a light golden brown. The hair was just a few shades darker than the skin, except where flaxen streaks lightened it, ...... There were small lines around the eyes and her memories told me the lines were from smiling and squinting into sunlight.

. . I don't even get two steps before rough, hard hands grab my shoulders and wrench me back against his body.
. . I throw my elbow into his gut-- and this really hurts. His stomach muscles are as iron hard as the hand..... He doesn't even suck in a breath at my blow.
. . His hands grab my face from both sides, and before I can pull free, his lips come down hard on mine.
. . He kisses me again, and this time I feel it. His lips are softer than his hands, and hot, even in the warm desert night. A flock of butterflies riots in my stomach and steals my breath.




My skin burns where it meets his. It feels better than good, but it sets off a strange aching in my chest.

. . He squeezes my hand, and my heart punches against my ribs. It's just like pain, this pleasure.

Melanie and Jared::
"If I got to pick anyone, anyone at all, to be stranded on a deserted planet with, it would be you," I whisper. The sun between us burns hotter. "I always want to be with you. And not just...not just to talk to. When you touch me..." I dare to let my fingers brush lightly along the warm skin of his arm, and it feels like the flames are flowing from their tips now. His arm tightens around me. Does he feel the fire? "I don't want you to stop." I want to be more exact, but I can't find the words. That's fine. It's bad enough having admitted this much. "If you don't feel the same way, I understand. Maybe it isn't the same for you. That's okay. " Lies.
"Oh Mel," he sighs in my ear, and pulls my face around to meet his.
More flames in his lips, fiercer than the others, blistering. I don't know what I'm doing, but it doesn't seem to matter. His hands are in my hair, and my heart is about to combust. I can't breathe. I don't want to breathe.


That's all you get... now breath.... and if you haven't read The Host, go and read it now!

Stephenie Meyer is an amazing writer! I know most of you agree on this already, you read the Twilight Saga and likely you have read The Host. In this post I thought I would put in a few of the beginning excerpts so you could feel and see Jared through Melanie's eyes.

You also see who I believe should play Jared Howe in the event a movie is made. In the beginning of the book Jared is 26 and I think toward the end he is closer to 30. I know Gerard Butler could pass as a 30 year old that has been weathered by the desert sands and sun and the stress of hard life in this changed world. A man that is resourceful, rugged, muscular, and despite the desolation... still has a funny side and manners. **swoon** {manners are bangin' hot!}

Through out the book you see him through Melanie's eyes from before she became a host but you also see him through the Wanderer's eyes as a soul. Wanderer is not someone Jared likes but he protects her and her host. It is his bravery, kindness, fairness, fierce love and his desire to save Melanie that allows us readers to see how bangin' hot he is.

Go on, go get yourself some Gerard..Ahem, I mean Jared. *wink*

{oh, you should know, there is another BHBB in this book but that is for another day, I wanted to stick to just the one today}

ADDENDUM (12-09-09): I posted a short list of my favorite bangin' hot book boys over at my blog. Go and see!

Cheers~Ivy