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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
The first 200 pages were great but then it seemed to have turned into a story way too complex and boring for me.
I know this book borrows from its post-apocalyptic, science-experiment-gone-wrong predecessors (I Am Legend, The Road), but it's still an enthralling read. Interesting characters on a journey - only this journey involves mutated vampire-like creatures that like ripping living mammals to shreds. Good stuff - kept me up until 2:30 am.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
This book had some very slow parts - quite long ones! - but I was sucked into it as I am not often! For the last 400 pages, I couldn't talk about anything but the book :)
Sometimes a book comes along that starts as a slow burn, but then gets better and I start reading more at a time.
On the end, this is now one of my favorite books ever. Yes it ends on a cliffhanger, but that one final line was such a sucker punch, I never saw it coming.
Tons of great characters, and while hefty, it never felt like it was just treading water.
On the end, this is now one of my favorite books ever. Yes it ends on a cliffhanger, but that one final line was such a sucker punch, I never saw it coming.
Tons of great characters, and while hefty, it never felt like it was just treading water.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Started off great. Quick story build up with some great characters. We finally get to meet the vampires but they are honestly kind of lame. Then, out of no where, the story, characters and settings change. And it's all downhill from there.
Disappointing end to a good start. I will not be finishing the trilogy
Disappointing end to a good start. I will not be finishing the trilogy
Like if Stephen king and ray bradbury wrote a book together, without the bradburian racism and with some lagging in the middle. Overall creative and entertaining
I really enjoyed this book and couldn't put it down. It felt similiar and yet very different from other apocalyptic fiction I have read. I loved the first third of the book, the whole story of how the virus was obtained, the testing of it on death row inmates to create the Twelve, and then the near end of civilization. The rest of the book takes place nearly 100 years after the outbreak with a whole new set of characters. The characters in this book feel like real people, which is probably why I liked it so much. I also like how the virals are not just extremely dangerous "monsters" (though, they are definitely that), but seem to have some semblance of their previous human life within them. Very interesting book and I cannot wait to read the next one.