The Night Eternal

Guillermo del Toro · Chuck Hogan

Oct 2011 · The Strain Trilogy Book 3 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

“The most credible and frightening of all the vampire books of the past decade.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Bram Stoker meets Stephen King meets Michael Crichton. It just doesn’t get much better than this.”
—Nelson DeMille

The stunning New York Times bestselling vampire saga that author Dan Simmons (Drood, The Terror) calls, “an unholy spawn of I Am Legend out of ‘Salem’s Lot,” concludes with The Night Eternal. The magnificent, if monstrously warped brainchild of cinematic horror master Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) and Chuck Hogan—whose novel Prince of Thieves, was praised as, “one of the 10 best books of the year” by Stephen King—The Night Eternal begins where The Strain and The Fall left off: with the last remnants of humankind enslaved by the vampire masters in a world forever shrouded by nuclear winter.  Still, a small band of the living fights on in the shadows, in the final book of the ingenious dark fantasy trilogy that Newsweek says is, “good enough to make us break that vow to swear off vampire stories.”

Ratings and reviews

Having read the first book of this trilogy, I was very pleased with it. The plot was new and the writing was very good. A quick pace made for serious page turning. The second book was a big let-down. Too much time spent re-hashing the people and events from the first book and a very slow pace of plot development, the actual story just crawling along between re-hashing and multiples characters individual thoughts. Hoping the third book would be worth having slushed through #2, I jumped into it and almost did not even finish it. Boring, slow, the main character, Eph no longer believable. We are suppose to believe he was so obsessed with getting his son back yet we find he has actually been in a two year drug/alcohol daze, which left me wondering how he could do that and stay lucid enough to even think about his son. Also, through this haze, he somehow managed to stay safe too even though his ex-wife, (now a vampire) who has a mental link with him has no problem tracking him and attacking him with help, but ONLY it seems when he is semi lucid and with others around who can help. The ending was poor and rushed as well. Should have been one book, two at most, not fluffed.

Not as good as the first two but really well done none the less. Ties the story well and has no loose ends. Overall the trilogy is excellent and is a great read for fans of horror. These aren't twilight type, romantic vampires. If you like sci-fi horror.. You'll love these books. Great spin on the vampire genre and there are some really original plot points that tell the story in a rich, mythos filled way. The story spans decades and does it on a way that makes perfect sense. Great book, great story.

I purchased the book yesterday and I've yet to have it downloaded to my phone! Keep getting an error message that says the book cannot be retrieved from the server. Please get my book to me, please. I like the series and want to finish it.

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.