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I'm going to comment briefly and then add to this later, as I'm lending this book to a friend who sometimes reads my LJ and don't want to spoiler him. This is number 3 in the authors' The Strain Trilogy about a world vampiric takeover; not at all of the sparkly kind. Think "strain" as in "virus" and it all begins to make sense.
It's very fast paced, maybe more so than the other two, and feels like a movie, which is logical considering del Toro's career as a movie director. The action is described clearly but not in any way like a infodump. I don't know the city of New York except through books and movies, but this book, all three of them, go a long way towards remedying that. Maybe it's Chuck Hogan who has the city knowledge, I don't know, as I couldn't find any clues as to which of them wrote what. The style is seamless. It was difficult to make myself stop reading it, even at times when I needed to do other things, like get off the train, take a shower, work or go to sleep.
I'll comment some more on this book later and there may be spoilers when I do. For now I go back to rereading of Joshua Guess. I finished War of the Living, book 3 of The Fall, one of my favourite zombie apocalypsi - apocalypses? Then there's one more in the series, Genesis Game, and just now when I checked the order of books in that series, I saw he has something new out which I don't have yet. No, no....you can't. Wait till next pay.
It's very fast paced, maybe more so than the other two, and feels like a movie, which is logical considering del Toro's career as a movie director. The action is described clearly but not in any way like a infodump. I don't know the city of New York except through books and movies, but this book, all three of them, go a long way towards remedying that. Maybe it's Chuck Hogan who has the city knowledge, I don't know, as I couldn't find any clues as to which of them wrote what. The style is seamless. It was difficult to make myself stop reading it, even at times when I needed to do other things, like get off the train, take a shower, work or go to sleep.
I'll comment some more on this book later and there may be spoilers when I do. For now I go back to rereading of Joshua Guess. I finished War of the Living, book 3 of The Fall, one of my favourite zombie apocalypsi - apocalypses? Then there's one more in the series, Genesis Game, and just now when I checked the order of books in that series, I saw he has something new out which I don't have yet. No, no....you can't. Wait till next pay.