It might seem a late stage to introduce a new meaningful character, but we’ve seen Quinlan briefly before, and he does prove pivotal. Readers, though, see where Zack is, and what’s now influencing his choices, instilling a suspense should father and son meet again. Goodweather remains the central character, now more dissolute, but not entirely without hope that he’ll manage to locate his son again, a quest that becomes more meaningful the longer the story runs. Humanity as cattle to provide blood for vampires is just one of several horrific extrapolations taken from Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s original novel. That’s not looking very likely at the start when David Lapham and Mike Huddleston present a subjugated humanity seeing little hope of overthrowing their new controllers. Vampires now co-exist alongside humanity, ruling them, with the Master controlling the vampires.Īlmost every meaningful question the series has raised is addressed in this final outing, including the origin of the vampires, why Ephraim Goodweather is important, and most crucially how the Master can be destroyed. The first two books of The Strain trilogy were an exciting build up to the world revealed in Book Three, a world two years on from the end of Book Two, where there’s only two hours of sunlight a day, during which a curfew is imposed.
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