Government employees who are trying to kill her. The Chemist by Stephenie MeyerĪctually, Alex isn’t her real name because Alex is on the run from her former U.S. A decade later and after reading approximately ten million criticisms of Stephenie Meyer books (her writing and plotting and whatnot), I recognize some of her shortcomings as an author, but that doesn’t keep me from just enjoying it from the first page until the last. Of course, I haven’t read any Stephenie Meyer books in the past six years and I never saw either of the Breaking Dawn movies or The Host, so my love was clearly not of the eternal vegetarian vampire nature, but it definitely had its moment in the sun.Īnyway, when I saw that Stephenie Meyer was releasing a new adult novel, The Chemist, there was no question I was going to read it.Īnd it was just SO fun.

When I wrote a review of the New Moon movie, it was my 19th post that was about Twilight in some form or another.Īll of which is to say, I get a big kick out of Stephenie Meyer books and I don’t hold them in the same contempt that many readers do. I read it because a friend handed it off to me and I got to read it without any of the hype and baggage that came along with it as it became wildly popular (which may explain why my review of it, written a decade ago, is definitely heavy on the fan-girl side and kind of embarrassing for me to read now).Īlso, of course I went to see the movie on opening night. I feel like it’s not cool to like Twilight (or really any Stephenie Meyer books), but.

But when they bring her on for one last job, promising to leave her alone if she cooperates, she decides it’s worth the risk. The Chemist is Stephenie Meyer’s new book, about a former government torturer who is now on the run from her handlers who want her dead.