papapete24 's review for:

The Strain by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan

3.0

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Guillermo Del Toro is a creative talent whose works burst with dark/gothic imagination. I am a huge fan. He is clearly known for the visual medium of film and the Strain displays his challenge of wrapping his imagery into words on a page. The end result is frankly a bit rough. It is valuable due to its mythology and vision rather than its writing craft. I felt that I had to push through some of the style choices and even character names which felt oddly contrived (Eph and Nora seemed to jut off the page as oddly unfitting). The opening sequence of a dark plane on a runway easily overwhelms any misgivings of the writing. Overall fun read and I look forward to the trilogy's final two additions.