After such a gripping first book, I immediately picked up the second in the trilogy- The Fall by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
As a stand-alone book this novel isn't amazing. It certainly doesn't hook you in the first chapter like its first instalment. The pace is slow, and the chapters are a lot more weighty than previously.
The Fall is used as a way to explain the past of the characters we have met previously, and we learn a great deal about how they came to be. Despite this wealth of characterisation, the female characters never really seem to develop - they almost exist merely to show us more about the male characters. The downside of this is you never really care if they get sucked dry by vamps!
The slow pace really picks up towards the final chapters, with a clever plot development which leaves you siding with the team responsible for wiping out humankind.
My advice is this; persevere all the blather, if only to get to the third and final part of the trilogy. I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a bloodbath worth waiting for..!
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