Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain
I'm giving up this horror novel at 129 pages. It started off strong, as people react to an airplane that, just after landing, suddenly goes dark, and everyone on board is found dead. Great atmosphere, not a surprise from del Toro. But it's just boring after a while as people try and figure out what could have caused this (the book jacket reveals that it's vampires of some sort, which really ruins the narrative tension). Even a Holocaust survivor armed for battle against evil can't make things more interesting (which is a mark of how quickly things get boring, despite the choppy chapters that feel like quick scene cuts). I don't love horror stories to begin with, but this probably should have just been a movie.
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