The Strain

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· The Strain Trilogy Book 1 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Ron Perlman
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“A high-tech vampire epic....Terrifying.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Part The Andromeda Strain, part Night of the Living Dead.”
—Salon.com

“Chuck Hogan is known for his taut thrillers, Guillermo del Toro for his surreal horror films...The Strain brings out the best of each.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune

An epic battle for survival begins between man and vampire in The Strain—the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy from one of Hollywood’s most inventive storytellers and a critically acclaimed thriller writer. Guillermo del Toro, the genius director of the Academy Award-winning Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy, and Hammett Award-winning author Chuck Hogan have joined forces to boldly reinvent the vampire novel. Brilliant, blood-chilling, and unputdownable, The Strain is a nightmare of the first order.

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4.4
27 reviews
Kasi-Nichole Wilson
21 August 2024
I can't decide how fair this is or if it's my own impatience but I believe this book drags ever so slightly. It's extremely descriptive, sometimes boringly so, and is a slow set up for the series. However, it is worth the wait when the action snaps into place and the set up pays off in the end with a great series that is one of the most unique vampire series I've ever experienced.
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Tony Pollreisz
1 June 2023
I had watched the series before even hearing about the books. Ron Perlman really brings the series to life. My only gripe is a different pronunciation of the protagonist's name than I was used to but it was consistent and didn't lessen my enjoyment of this great book.
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Michael Gilden
19 August 2024
It's a good book overall, but you could feel the ending around the middle. And with so many moving parts describing the chaos, I never got the time to really fall in love with any of the characters. I enjoyed myself, though, and hearing Ron in the audio version was great.
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About the author

Guillermo del Toro is an Academy Award®–winning film director as well as a screenwriter, producer, and New York Times bestselling novelist. He is best known for his foreign fantasy films, especially Pan’s Labyrinth, and American mainstream movies like The Shape of Water. Del Toro has published multiple bestselling adult novels with HarperCollins, including The Strain, which was adapted into a TV series by FX, and he is the creator of Trollhunters, Netflix’s most-watched children’s series.

Chuck Hogan is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Devils in Exile and Prince of Thieves, which won the 2005 Hammett Award, was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King, and was the basis of the motion picture The Town.Chuck Hogan es autor de varias aclamadas novelas, entre las cuales se encuentra Prince of Thieves que ganó el Hammett Award 2005 y que fue considerada una de las diez mejores novelas del año por Stephen King.

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