Fall | 
pickDevoured this pretty quick! Must get the third!
I love Del Toro -books, movies, whatever- clearly, his style appeals to me!
I love all the characters, the action, the dialogue....blah blah blah, go read!
Also, still love the art of jacket covers but prefer them off. Haha
You ever hear facts like this in a fictional work and immediately go look it up? 🧐Sorry Del Toro and Hogan, it's not like I don't trust you guys, but it's fiction, right? Lol
So, it's true.
I can't even fathom that amount of money. Unreal.
Waiting for my ☕ to be done so I thought I'd sit on my new little kitchen nook and read.
Also, I started this series ten years ago. This is the SECOND book....it took me a while 😂
@FantasyChick have you read these ones?
pickA fast read.
And insidious.
While I wasn‘t particularly terrified reading this, apparently I was: I had nightmares all night while reading this one.
I‘m not sure if I should finish the third, or have a couple palate cleansers in between.
so-soThe second book in The Strain trilogy, The Fall follows the same cast of characters as vampires are taking over NYC. I like the story and find some of the ideas quite compelling, but I‘m bothered by the lack of female characters and marginalization of the ones present. I really don‘t think I‘m going to bother with book 3.
Your kind will exist in a manner beyond all hope. I have delivered to you a new Messiah, and the reckoning is at hand. The mythmakers were right, save for their characterization of the second coming of a Messiah. He will indeed raise the dead. He will preside over the final judgment. God promises eternal life. The Master delivers it. And he will establish his kingdom on earth.
Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness – cutting the diseased heart out of one‘s wife‘s chest and preserving it, the corrupted organ beating with the craving of a bloodworm, inside a pickling jar. Life is madness, thought Satrakian, done with his butchering, looking about the room. And so is love.
“This world is a motherfucker, isn‘t it?”
Angel nodded and said, “But it‘s the only one we have.”
pickI was torn between marking this So-So and Pick. By the end of the book it just slipped into Pick because of the cliffhanger ending. The beginning of this book is slow to get going and it felt like the authors were dragging things out to have enough material for a trilogy. Hopefully book 3 will be a bit better. 3🌠 #fantasy #vampires
"I have never met Mynheer Blaak, mind you."
Well, at least it's true, I haven't.
When I was at the cottage I found a disheveled bookstore and slightly creepy owner (?) BUT it had this gem!!! I read The Strain in the summer of 2010, I think. The sequel has taken long enough to find me but I do like when books "find me" so all is forgiven.
Finally managed to finish The Strain but didn't manage to cure book slump. Three months of barely reading, gave up the reading challenges, decided I really need Kindle Voyage and uninstalled Croatia Reads app (because it's not free anymore :( ). #lazybrokelife
pickLittle slow to begin with but picks up afterwards
It took the world sixty days to end. And we were there to account for it- our omissions, our arrogance... Leaving us longing for daylight when it was ours no more...
