The Fall

While there are some moments I found annoying including how little empathy everyone has for Eph. It's a was great, and enjoyable to read, though I will Zach is as annoying if not more annoying than in the show. What a horrible child. Overall loved it.

I pushed through book one to get here and while it was better than book one, it still was terribly monotonal

Hello darkness my old friend

This one felt a little more enjoyable than the first one - del Toro feels more comfortable with writing for the page as opposed to the screen, and it was interesting to see the story of a society slowing sliding into an apocalypse (rather than the usual post- or pre-apocalyptic stories one tends to get).

I loved this book! I couldn't stop reading and I can't wait to read the third. If you like vampires, you should read these books. Guillermo Del Toro knows how to write awesome stories.

Good follow-up of The Strain.

Liked it. Looking forward to the last book in the series now.

In my brief review of the first book of the Strain Trilogy, [b:The Strain 6065215 The Strain (The Strain, #1) Guillermo Del Toro http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255573295s/6065215.jpg 6241525], I wrote “I thought at first that the story was being stretched too thin, that too many ancillary characters were getting too much screen time, but everything comes together in satisfactory fashion by the end of the book.” The second book of the trilogy, [b:The Fall 6723348 The Fall (The Strain, #2) Guillermo Del Toro http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1277534846s/6723348.jpg 6919505], suffers from the same problem of stretching the story too thin over a number of characters, but unlike The Strain, The Fall isn't able to pull everything together by the end. And as the story expands to include less interesting and more stereotypical characters, the three main characters of the story become less believable and more like cliched action heros. For most of hte novel, they essentially become a trio of Bruce Willis in Die Hard or Jack Bauer type characters–characters who accomplish ridiculous tasks with incredible ease and who can be set upon by packs of ravenous vampires, set off an underground explosion, and then walk away without serious consequences.The Strain certainly wasn't an innovative vampire novel, at least not in comparison to a vampire apocalypse novel like [b:The Passage 6690798 The Passage (The Passage, #1) Justin Cronin http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1289283007s/6690798.jpg 2802546] or a vampire conspiracy novel like [b:Carrion Comfort 11286 Carrion Comfort Dan Simmons http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649654s/11286.jpg 909623], but The Fall feels like a Tony Scott version of the first book in the trilogy.