Reading the Twilight series the first time around, I loved it because of its story. Attempting to read it a second time proved fruitless, as I realized that Stephenie Meyer could not write worth the pen she uses. Reading this particular novel, her only novel to date outside said series, I was given renewed hope that maybe she wasn't as terrible as I made her out to be. This is an intriguing novel about an alien who is supposed to help her kind to take over the human world, but turns to love the human she is inserted with and other humans that kept me from sleep for a couple of nights while I finished it. Meyer's writing has much improved in her fourth novel since her first. Based on this, I do intend to read any future novels that are published.