Are Meyer’s adult projects eclipsed by Twilight?

On April 13, Stephenie Meyer‘s first adult novel, The Host, will be released in paperback. Little, Brown has big plans for the new edition, which includes a bonus chapter and a telling “author of the Twilight saga” stamp on the cover. (Check out the handwritten Q&A Meyer did with BookPage when The Host was published in 2008.)

But are Meyer’s future projects doomed to be overshadowed by the sparkly vampire juggernaut? Sure, The Host sold more than 2 million copies in hardcover, but the fourth Twilight novel, Breaking Dawn, sold 1.3 million copies in its first day of release.

All that may change when the film version of The Host is released. According to a Little, Brown press release, the movie rights have been “optioned by Nick Wechsler and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz, the team that produced the film of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Andrew Niccol of Gattaca and The Truman Show will write the script and direct.” Meyer has said though she preferred relative unknowns for the film version of Twilight, she’d enjoy seeing actors like Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and Ben Affleck starring in The Host.

Confession: I’ve read the Twilight saga AND most of The Host, which features body-snatching aliens and, yes, another love triangle. Meyer told Vogue that she sees The Host as a story about body image. “I’m not critical of others, but I am very critical of myself. . . . When I was working on this, I had to imagine what a gift it is to just have a body, and really love it, and that was good for me, I think.” She has two sequels mapped out, but no pub date has yet been announced.

Other readers who found the male-female dynamic in Twilight slightly troubling will have even more to chew on with The Host, whose heroine endures actual physical abuse in order to prove her love/loyalty. (You can download a PDF excerpt from The Host by clicking here.) Anyone else read both books? How do you think they compare?