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From Debbie Wiley Book Reviews
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The Strain
by Guillermo del
Toro and Chuck Hogan
It
all starts when a Boeing 777 lands at JFK Airport… and then goes
totally silent and dark. Inside the plane is a medical mystery, one
that Dr. Ephraim “Eph” Goodweather of the Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) is determined to uncover. What Eph doesn’t expect to find,
however, are vampires. Just how far has the infection spread?
THE STRAIN is the first in a trilogy and wow, what a start it is! The
action and suspense start on the very first page and never relent. It’s
almost impossible to put THE STRAIN down as each page ventures deeper
and deeper into the mystery behind these vampires. Guillermo del Toro
and Chuck Hogan do a phenomenal job with the pacing of the story as all
of the pieces work together to ramp up the tension and suspense of the
storyline. It was all I could do to not peek at the ending!
THE STRAIN is horror at its finest. Yes, there’s gore but the gore
isn’t overdone. Instead, it is the creepy sense of foreboding, the
knowledge that anybody can and just might die or end up as one of the
vampires that makes this tale work so well. Guillermo del Toro and
Chuck Hogan craft likable characters who are all literally at stake and
there is no guarantee of any sort of happily-ever-after. I just
couldn’t turn the pages fast enough to see what would happen next!
THE STRAIN is the sort of book in which the movie version is easy to
imagine as the element of fear permeates every single page. Guillermo
del Toro and Chuck Hogan do a magnificent job at creating an
apocalyptic tale and weaving it together with past historical events to
create a mythology for these particular vampires. THE STRAIN is sheer
reading pleasure! Bravo!
Publisher: Harper
(July 2010)
Other books in series: THE FALL
Reviewed
by Debbie, Debbie Wiley Book Reviews
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