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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
Hated. It. How could something this long be so boring?
The first part of this book, was all tension mounting and far, far scarier than what was to come. You didn't know what was going to happen and that made it far more suspenseful. The second part of the book is a good old fashioned monster yarn, but on a far grander scale than anything you've probably read before. It's probably a 3.5 stars rather than a 3 star book, and I'll probably read the remaining books in the trilogy, but after how the book started I was a little underwhelmed.
Scary vampire contagion thriller with vampires wanting to take over the world. Fast paced, not particularly well written but decently plotted, the high points in the story are easily the detailed description of the transformation and how the contagion spreads, the added wrinkle to the vampires (stinger ahoy) and the old vampire hunter. The low points include a lead character, his lover, and his family, all you could really not care that much about
Overall a good time pass horror thriller, that sets up a trilogy rather than getting done in one
Overall a good time pass horror thriller, that sets up a trilogy rather than getting done in one
I can't believe I even finished this book. I kept thinking it was going to get better, that I would start caring about one of the characters, that the writing would get better. Complete waste of time. I love horror stories and vampires, but this was just awful. I found it really boring. Sorry Guillermo. I love your movies, but I won't be picking up another of your books. Stick with the great movie-making career!
Interesting reimagining
I watched the first season of the TV show without actually realising there was a trilogy of books which were the source material.
As with all adaptations from books there are many differences between the two, but I found myself enjoying both the show and this first book equally. Sure some of the characters are cliches, and the writing was a bit 'ropey' at times and it was obvious that it was written with a movie/TV adaptation in mind, but it wasn't as bad as some reviews have said.
I personally think it is an interesting reimagining of the whole vampire myth/lore, which recently has become a little tired and 'samey' so introducing some new twists and takes on vampires was interesting to me.
I'm definitely going to be buying the next two books to see how the story progresses.
I watched the first season of the TV show without actually realising there was a trilogy of books which were the source material.
As with all adaptations from books there are many differences between the two, but I found myself enjoying both the show and this first book equally. Sure some of the characters are cliches, and the writing was a bit 'ropey' at times and it was obvious that it was written with a movie/TV adaptation in mind, but it wasn't as bad as some reviews have said.
I personally think it is an interesting reimagining of the whole vampire myth/lore, which recently has become a little tired and 'samey' so introducing some new twists and takes on vampires was interesting to me.
I'm definitely going to be buying the next two books to see how the story progresses.
not sure what to say... my first book of this genre and i believe, my last! too many bad dreams and sleepless nights! hah!
While Ron Pearlman was a great narrator, sometimes he couldnt make the voices distinct enough and they flowed within each other.
Scenery-chewing melodrama, where every character's next move is crucial, every problem is a crisis, and every scene is a cliffhanger. Del Toro is a consummate screenwriter and knows how to get pulses a-pounding, but a lot of the narration feels like padding and a lot of the plot- and backstory-dumping exposition feels like overexposure.
3 stars out of 5. Clichéd, but serviceable entertainment.
3 stars out of 5. Clichéd, but serviceable entertainment.
This was such an uneven book - at times the writing was beautiful and evocative, and then suddenly there'd be some clunky, ungrammatical sentence that kicked me right out of the story... plus there's almost NO recovery time between the protagonist being told that vampires are real, and his almost casual acceptance of that as fact. Admittedly, he gets evidence thrown at him by the bucketload, but even then, we're prone to try desperately to find some mundane explanation for odd occurrences. This guy seems to absorb an impossible explanation and jump right in to the situation with hardly a murmur of dissent.
That said, it's an interesting take on the vampire myth - vampirism caused by an infectious agent. I enjoy reading different authors' approach to what are pretty much standard assumptions about vampires and twisting them just a bit, or giving an alternative explanation/tie-in to vampire lore (i.e., silver is effective due to its well-known antibacterial/fungicidal/viricidal properties, etc.)
The other two books are out - will probably have to track down copies and finish the story.
That said, it's an interesting take on the vampire myth - vampirism caused by an infectious agent. I enjoy reading different authors' approach to what are pretty much standard assumptions about vampires and twisting them just a bit, or giving an alternative explanation/tie-in to vampire lore (i.e., silver is effective due to its well-known antibacterial/fungicidal/viricidal properties, etc.)
The other two books are out - will probably have to track down copies and finish the story.
Not bad.
It reads alot like a movie, and there are some serious similarities to Dracula.
The Coffin with Soil
Abraham Setrakian = Van Helsing
Eph Goodweather = Seward
Airplane = Demeter
There’s a Renfield character
There are others, but I can’t think of them right now. It’s worth the read.
It reads alot like a movie, and there are some serious similarities to Dracula.
The Coffin with Soil
Abraham Setrakian = Van Helsing
Eph Goodweather = Seward
Airplane = Demeter
There’s a Renfield character
There are others, but I can’t think of them right now. It’s worth the read.