A different take on the vampire story. This one is set in modern day America with the mystery ’virus’ being investigated by members of the CDC, an elderly vampire hunter and a pest control expert. A little tongue in cheek maybe, but there were some genuine chills here.
This did read more like a movie, which is not surprising given Del Toro’s background, and it brought to mind various vampire and zombie novels/movies that I have read or seen and I kept thinking of the movie ‘28 Days Later’. There were the usual annoying sequences where a character is in imminent danger and could quite easily get away (and doesn’t) which is frustrating enough watching it on screen let alone reading it in a book.
The ideas may not have been totally original, but the characters were a little different, and being book one of a trilogy I am interested to see where books two and three will take me.
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