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The Strain
by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Are you sick of sparkling vampires and sappy romantic vampires. Then The Strain is the book for you.
The vampires in this do not sparkle, turn into bat or fear garlic and holy water. The are at the very basic form - virus. One which needs blood for survival.
Once in the host, the replicate at an exponential rate and change the human biology and these things spread like zombie bite and they are let loose in New York city.
Now, add in a bunch of unlikely hero - Eph and Nora from Centre for Disease Control, professor Abraham who has a first hand experience of the epidemic and Fet - the rat exterminator. These guys group up the contain the spread of virus and exterminate it.
The stakes are high as the virus is spreading at an alarming rate and there are powerful forces working against our unlikely bunch of heroes.
I got to know about this book from the show - The Strain on FX. The Strain is the first book of the The Strain trilogy. Till now the story is humans working to contain the vampire epidemic, the next book in the trilogy - The Fall is going to introduce other ancient vampires into the mix, which I hope doesn't muddle things up.
The strain is one of the best, grounded story which adds a new twist to the vampire lore.
The vampires in this do not sparkle, turn into bat or fear garlic and holy water. The are at the very basic form - virus. One which needs blood for survival.
Once in the host, the replicate at an exponential rate and change the human biology and these things spread like zombie bite and they are let loose in New York city.
Now, add in a bunch of unlikely hero - Eph and Nora from Centre for Disease Control, professor Abraham who has a first hand experience of the epidemic and Fet - the rat exterminator. These guys group up the contain the spread of virus and exterminate it.
The stakes are high as the virus is spreading at an alarming rate and there are powerful forces working against our unlikely bunch of heroes.
I got to know about this book from the show - The Strain on FX. The Strain is the first book of the The Strain trilogy. Till now the story is humans working to contain the vampire epidemic, the next book in the trilogy - The Fall is going to introduce other ancient vampires into the mix, which I hope doesn't muddle things up.
The strain is one of the best, grounded story which adds a new twist to the vampire lore.