The Hostess

De: Cat Oyster

Narrado por: Susan Spano

In a near-future gig economy, her body is not her own. While asleep, strangers rent Michaela’s body to experience life through her senses—virtual tourists who step into her skin from across the world.

It’s seamless. Harmless. Voluntary. Until it’s not. When Michaela wakes with unexplained bruises, she and her coworker at the body-hosting agency start asking questions they were never meant to ask.

Who’s really using their bodies? And what are they doing while the hosts sleep? When your body is just another platform, what happens when you lose control of it?

A taut, thought-provoking novelette for fans of Black Mirror, Klara and the Sun, and Severance.

©2015, 2025 Catherine Oyster (P)2025 Catherine Oyster

what if your job was renting your body?

This has been a very short read, its a dystopian world where people rent their body for other people to experience a different reality of their own... at least this is how the story is sold to the people renting their bodies, so its all for the greater good, or is it? Our main character Michaela awakes after a shift with strange bruises and no recollection of what took place but that is not strange.. she takes some “drugs” to make her go into her shift in a more pleasant way and when she complains the dose is adjusted but that is not a good thing..

I cant really enter in details or I will spoil the story for other people, but I was lucky enough to get to listen to the audiobook, and it was a good experience, Susan Spano did a good job reading it, and the main character best friend she had an accent that I, and maybe wrongly point to belong to Queens haha yeah I am a Fran Fine fan, because of that It was easy to know who was talking when they were talking. That being said, this was a nice experience, the story was scary, because I feel we walk for a society as such and its not a good feeling,so I recommend for you to grab a copy and enjoy this dystopian story for yourself.

I got a free audible code from Librarything, and this is my honest opinion.

Compelling story& excellent reading!!

I Just finished the audio book for the hostess. It was excellent. Such a compelling story & audio book reading was so well done. My only complaint was that it was too short!!