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A review by titus_hjelm
The Strain: Book One of the Strain Trilogy by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
2.0
This sat on my shelf for a decade, having first eagerly bought it, drawn by del Toro's name. Very disappointing, tbh. Who doesn't like a zombie-vampire crossover, OK? But the writing is quite juvenile, especially in the beginning. The editor must have been sleeping or otherwise they would have cut the numerous paragraphs, where the narrator steps out of the story and starts explaining how a gun or a medicine or whatever works. 'Don't let your research intervene in your narrative', the writing guide said. The authors just didn't get the memo. Otherwise the story is quite cinematic--which is to be expected and although one or two of the characters actually grow into three-dimensional parts of the story, there is little to convince me that I should check out the rest of the trilogy.