Title: The Strain
Author: Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Genre: Suspense, science fiction, supernatural
Publisher: William Morrow
Publishing date: June 2nd 2009
Pages: 403
Rating
★★★★✩
Hello everyone!
Halloween is around the corner, so I though it would be a good idea to review a
book darker than the usual things I read, that’s why I chose The Strain, it has some elements of
horror.
The strain starts telling us a particular story about Jusef
Sardu, a Polish nobleman who
suffered from gigantism, and was brought to
Romania by his father on an expedition to hunt wolves. The entire hunting party
mysteriously died or disappeared, except for Sardu, who returned to his family
home in Poland but was rarely seen by the townspeople; and he eventually became
the village bogeyman. This little story is important to the whole plot, after
that the real story begins, now we are settled in New York several years later,
a Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it
suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All
communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for
answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather,
head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates
biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his
blood run cold. There is some kind of virus transforming people into “vampires”,
during his research he will team up with his colleague and former lover, Nora;
a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham; and a plague
exterminator, Vasily Fet to save the city.
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