I didn’t read it or haven’t yet. I’m not a sci-fi fan and it took two books before I even warmed up to the Twilight series. I thought the first book was clumsy. Of course, it was targeted at Middle School aged tweens, so it was perfect, but no one alerted me to that beforehand.
i came late to it also. We read the first 3 books the summer before Breaking Dawn came out, so we really could read them one after the other without waiting. I was sad to be done with them [i agree the first book and first movie are not the best of the lot] so i read the Host and was pleasantly surprised. i recommend it also.