Mr. McCane
I had a good time with this one. I’d been looking for a dystopian sci-fi horror novel that would blow me away, and this one almost got it right. I’ll explain why later.
Let’s get this out of the way. This is nothing like the movie starring Will Smith. As a matter of fact, the movie should have been called something else.
The entire planet has suffered through a vampire bacteria pandemic. A new mutated race of people has emerged, and they’re vampires. I’m talking about the traditional vampires. The afraid of crosses, garlic, and sunlight type.
Robert Neville is the last man on Earth. He hunts vampires by day and tries to survive at night. He’s also researching what happened. But the more he discovers, the more he wishes he hadn’t.
This was a good read and almost exactly what I was looking for. It had intense monster scenes, the lone-survivor trope, and a thought-provoking twist at the end. It’s a quick read, and I could visualize everything clearly.
My biggest issue with the book is that our main character, Robert, has a horrible view of women. It’s really distracting and pretty hard to overlook. His thoughts and actions involving women don’t add anything to the story. In fact, they only hurt it.
The second half is far better than the first. Overall, I enjoyed the read, but I can’t give it anything higher than 3.75 stars for the reasons I mentioned above. I know we can’t choose our main characters, but if we had someone else in Robert’s place, this book could have been perfect.
It was written in 1954, though. 🤷🏾♂️
I had a good time with this one. I’d been looking for a dystopian sci-fi horror novel that would blow me away, and this one almost got it right. I’ll explain why later.
Let’s get this out of the way. This is nothing like the movie starring Will Smith. As a matter of fact, the movie should have been called something else.
The entire planet has suffered through a vampire bacteria pandemic. A new mutated race of people has emerged, and they’re vampires. I’m talking about the traditional vampires. The afraid of crosses, garlic, and sunlight type.
Robert Neville is the last man on Earth. He hunts vampires by day and tries to survive at night. He’s also researching what happened. But the more he discovers, the more he wishes he hadn’t.
This was a good read and almost exactly what I was looking for. It had intense monster scenes, the lone-survivor trope, and a thought-provoking twist at the end. It’s a quick read, and I could visualize everything clearly.
My biggest issue with the book is that our main character, Robert, has a horrible view of women. It’s really distracting and pretty hard to overlook. His thoughts and actions involving women don’t add anything to the story. In fact, they only hurt it.
The second half is far better than the first. Overall, I enjoyed the read, but I can’t give it anything higher than 3.75 stars for the reasons I mentioned above. I know we can’t choose our main characters, but if we had someone else in Robert’s place, this book could have been perfect.
It was written in 1954, though. 🤷🏾♂️
