A review by kelschris15
The Strain by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan

2.0

More like 2.5 stars, but hey. Pretty much your bog standard airport paperback thriller - interesting premise meets meh writing and makes for an entertaining if not particularly memorable read. The characters are one-dimensional tropes and not particularly likable ones at that. I'm all for flawed characters, but I find it annoying when authors go the route of making everyone misanthropic and jaded and bitter, and every marriage miserable, whether openly or secretly. Projection much? Might eventually get around to reading the sequels out of curiosity, but they aren't particularly high on the priority list.