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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
A bunch of cardboard CSI refugees fight some mildly inventive vampires. Who lives? Who dies? Who cares?
This book jumped up my to read list by virtue of it becoming a tv series staying in July. I enjoyed this book well enough. My only complaint, which happens a lot in this type of books, is how long it takes the characters to figure out it's a vampire. I mean, I figured it out immediately and I would presume people in this fictional yet real world will have read vampire books and/or seen vampire movies do they should be able to put it together quicker. The vampires in this book are pretty creepy, let's see how FX does in their adaptation.
now this is a great vampire book. none of that glittery lame shit! i have been craving good horror for so long. i read several koontz novels and that just didn't do the trick, but this did. i can't wait to read the next one in the series. i have been a fan of guillermo del toro's movies and now i'm a fan of his writing too.
This sat on my shelf for a decade, having first eagerly bought it, drawn by del Toro's name. Very disappointing, tbh. Who doesn't like a zombie-vampire crossover, OK? But the writing is quite juvenile, especially in the beginning. The editor must have been sleeping or otherwise they would have cut the numerous paragraphs, where the narrator steps out of the story and starts explaining how a gun or a medicine or whatever works. 'Don't let your research intervene in your narrative', the writing guide said. The authors just didn't get the memo. Otherwise the story is quite cinematic--which is to be expected and although one or two of the characters actually grow into three-dimensional parts of the story, there is little to convince me that I should check out the rest of the trilogy.
I liked the new take on the whole vampire story. Kind of a mix between zombie/virus epidemic and vampire slaying.
A little bit stereotypical, the story introduces enough new ideas about what a vampire could be to be interesting. Still, there's kind of a sens of two authors getting together over beers and having some really great ideas that they didn't end up tying all together very neatly in book form.
I enjoyed this book. Well written and gripping I engaged with the characters and was interested in the story. There are some surprises and some loose ends but you expect that with the first book of a series. Not sure if I'll read the rest, hearing some mixed reviews.
Uudenlainen, jännittävä, yllättävä, mukaansatempaava (eng. unputdownable) hirviö/vampyyri/kauhukirja. Odotan innolla jatko-osia. Tykkään del Torosta myös ohjaajana ja kirjallisella saralla yllätti iloisesti!
Awesome book, really enjoyed. Too bad the TV adaptation was pretty terrible, was missing the character development and draw that the books had.