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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
Yay! Somebody finally made vampires scary again!
This isn't literature, but it is imaginative and fresh and genuinely fun to read. The writing is a bit clunky in places, but far better than most in the genre. Del Toro's creative vision shines through and the plot moves along easily. It's brain candy without the sweetness.
This isn't literature, but it is imaginative and fresh and genuinely fun to read. The writing is a bit clunky in places, but far better than most in the genre. Del Toro's creative vision shines through and the plot moves along easily. It's brain candy without the sweetness.
I've watched the show and loved it but the book just isn't for me. The horror of it is too bogged down in the minute clinical details of every single moment. I can't feel scared when I feel so bored. I adore Guillermo del Toro to a ridiculous degree, I love his work, etc. This one just isn't for me.
It is a good book for fun. I have recently been on a medical thriller/disease trend, so this fit right in and somehow managed to mix vampires into it too.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
dark
tense
These books will make super-stupendous movies. In fact, reading The Strain almost felt like I was reading a novelization of a movie. So I really hope there are movies of these somewhere in the works, because I want to find out what happens next but I'd rather watch it all go down than read the next two books.
To me, this book was a blending of several other stories: The Stand, Salem's Lot, Dracula, I Am Legend, and The Cobra Event. It wasn't very original, but it was still entertaining. The vampires in this book are caused by a parasitic bacteria that turns its host into a physiologically new creature altogether. When CDC directors don't listen to the warnings of the hero, Ephraim, the disease quickly spreads throughout New York City. An unlikely group of heroes emerges to try to halt the inevitable apocalypse that looms on the horizon.
The book reads like a movie. If you like action/horror/adventure films, this is the book for you. If your taste is high literature, or handsome vampires who sparkle, I'd skip it.
The book reads like a movie. If you like action/horror/adventure films, this is the book for you. If your taste is high literature, or handsome vampires who sparkle, I'd skip it.
Pretty terrible... I think that if I had not picked up this book as a gift that I probably would have never finished reading it.
I really enjoyed the first 3/4 of this book. But the last 1/4 of the book really starts to drag. I think it took me longer to read the last 100 pages than the first 300. The mystery of the airplane, the espionage and the lore of the vampires was really interesting. However, once the virus was being spread I feel like there is just a lull in action. Almost like the author had an agreed page count and had to fluff it up to get there in the end. I am going to give the whole trilogy a go so I am hoping this isn’t a preview for things to come.
Oh I hated this book so bad. Was glad when it was over.