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potatomolotov 's review for:
The Strain
by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
The plot was repetitive with the most flat and lack-luster characters imaginable, but the monsters were so compelling I couldn't put the book down.
I love that Del Toro is trying to make vampires horrifying again (and is mostly succeeding because parasites are also the thing of nightmares), but the writing gives this book such a cookie-cutter "we made this with TV character tropes in mind!" feel that I'm left feeling a bit disappointed.
It starts out great and you really feel the suspense, but bouncing between all of the characters which inevitably have the same result (surprise, they're vampires and they're eating their families) gets incredibly repetitive. The book has a solid 100 pages of unnecessary gore fluff and the end had me groaning with "Oh god it's a series and this isn't over."
I love that Del Toro is trying to make vampires horrifying again (and is mostly succeeding because parasites are also the thing of nightmares), but the writing gives this book such a cookie-cutter "we made this with TV character tropes in mind!" feel that I'm left feeling a bit disappointed.
It starts out great and you really feel the suspense, but bouncing between all of the characters which inevitably have the same result (surprise, they're vampires and they're eating their families) gets incredibly repetitive. The book has a solid 100 pages of unnecessary gore fluff and the end had me groaning with "Oh god it's a series and this isn't over."