The Host Redux Chapters 33 and 34

Chapter 33
Doubt

So we're still in the middle of the utterly thrilling fight scene going on in the bathhouse. Currently, she is trying to save Kyle from a hole or something and then Ian runs in and saves her, because Wanderer is incapable of doing anything by herself.

“Don't let go,” he cautioned.
Thanks for the great advice, Ian. I'm SURE she never would have thought of that!

“What… the hell… happened?”
"Having...stroke...can't form...coherent...sentences."

So basically now, Ian is all "Kyle tried to kill you! I can kill him!" and Wanderer's all, "But he is human. I don't belong here! I am worthless and you are all stronger than me blah blah blah."

Would that first dose of painkiller wear off soon?
Hasn't it been like 24 hours? I'm pretty sure it's worn off.

Ian kisses Wanderer on the forehead. THIS IS ALMOST TOO HOT TO HANDLE.

Chapter 34
Buried

Pedobear bitchslaps Kyle, and then I believe we have the first genuinely funny part of this book. It really pains me to say that, but I believe I have to give credit where credit is due:
“Um,” Doc said in a mild voice, “medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful
thing for his condition.”
“But I feel better,” Jared answered, sullen.

That stopped him short. I felt almost smug.
As you should,Melanie approved.He's wrong, and he's being a pig about it.
Thank you.
We girls have to stick together.
That's so lame.

Now Wanderer is explaining how the Souls reproduce. I love when Smeyer pretends she knows how science works. Basically, there are a bunch of sexless souls and then a mother (so basically like Consider Her Ways by John Wyndham. Way to rip off more sci-fi, Smeyer) who I think like, splits into a thousand pieces to reproduce. She compares it to bees. But with bees, someone has to mate with the female. How does Wanderer reproduce? I guess there's asexual reproduction, but she identifies as female. I don't know. Anyway, when the Mother reproduces, each of the new souls has a bit of the mother's memory, like a collective memory or something.

“I wonder what the evolutionary track would be… to produce a hive society with suiciding queens.…”
SuicidAL queens, you dumb shit. Suiciding isn't a word.

“That's just great,” someone said under his breath. “We've got a bloody queen mother alien
living with us. She could blow into a million new buggers at any moment.”
Smeyer. Dude. The buggers are from Ender's Game. We've gone through this already. Stealing from better sci-fi won't make this better.

Doc hushed the men who began to protest. “Wanda's given up sleep and peace to help him
through the pain. Her hands are bruised from holding his. What have you done for him?”
How hard could a man ravaged by the last stages of cancer really hold her hand? Not hard enough to bruise, I'll tell you that.

“He'll find his Gladys now. He's happier where he is.”
"He'll find his GLaDOS now. He's happier where he is, at Aperture Science. Now if he could only figure out the Companion Cube..."