Sanctuary

There are minor grammar and typographical errors that should have been caught by the editor. The ‘night runners' are nearly believable - far more so than the typical ‘Zombie'. Nevertheless, the author disappoints me by including impossible attributes like telepathy. Throughout the series thus far, he has also presented the idea that normal soldiers can sense when they're being watched because of an ‘energy' . . . to which I say baloney! I think the story had a few tactical mistakes as well. For instance, why would he bring the helicopter back to an area where the monsters are drawn to attack each night due to the presence of the food? Wouldn't that be a big risk for destroying the helicopter? In my opinion, there is a significant vulnerability that all these smart soldiers should have jumped at immediately. Their enemy must hunt a dwindling resource for food. They must kill to survive, but their numbers are out of balance with the available food supply. Therefore, the night runners need to range farther for food every night - but they have to find shelter before the sun kills them. I would think the soldiers would immediately jump to the safer strategy of setting snares, bear traps, pits, mazes, and other methods of letting the sun kill the night runners so that the soldiers wouldn't have to risk their lives and deplete their ammunition. At the end of this book, the author does actually let them come up with land mines. To my mind, this new species is doomed to extinction when all their food lives in the sun, but a few minutes exposure will kill them.