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gayatriii 's review for:
The Strain
by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Del Toro and Chuck Hogan join hands to revamp the vampire genre of storytelling. Vampires are not suave and sparkly and they they're most certainly not interested in dating you.
I'm terribly confused and on the fence about The Strain. if you've read Carrion Comfort, the Jewish old man Setrakian, determined to exterminate the vampire plague, will remind you of Saul. Entire scenes give you a sense of deja vu.
Quite a few sequences are zombie/vampire cliches we've been exposed to in a hundred movies. not necessarily a bad thing, but just nothing new.
The other major problem is that the whole book reads like a movie. This is just a well written account of a story we've heard before. I will probably not be reading the rest of the trilogy. Scenes and dialogues are straight out of, say, a Guillermo Del Toro movie. Wait what? He what? oh, wow...then I guess that explains it!
I'm terribly confused and on the fence about The Strain. if you've read Carrion Comfort, the Jewish old man Setrakian, determined to exterminate the vampire plague, will remind you of Saul. Entire scenes give you a sense of deja vu.
Quite a few sequences are zombie/vampire cliches we've been exposed to in a hundred movies. not necessarily a bad thing, but just nothing new.
The other major problem is that the whole book reads like a movie. This is just a well written account of a story we've heard before. I will probably not be reading the rest of the trilogy. Scenes and dialogues are straight out of, say, a Guillermo Del Toro movie. Wait what? He what? oh, wow...then I guess that explains it!