Advantages: Excellent descriptions Disadvantages: It's the last one!
Domain is the third in the series from Herbert, based on the mutant, giant killer rats. In my opinion it is the best of the three and can be enjoyed as a standalone book or if read in order as a trilogy it is even better.
OVERVIEW
London and the surrounding areas are hit with five nuclear bombs. The warning sirens are very late to wail and very few have time to escape to shelters. Hundreds flee into underground railway stations to avoid the blasts and the horrific radioactive fall out that will follow. Millions are simply blown to bits or crushed and mutilated from collapsing buildings.
Culver was on his way to the bank when the sirens began their frightening alarm, and whilst running to find appropriate shelter, he bumps into Dealey, a man who has been blinded by the flash of the bomb but who knows of a government shelter that ...
Advantages: Gory ending to an excellent trilogy Disadvantages: Not too many new angles for being ate by a rat !!
This may have been written 5 years after the previous instalment of the trilogy but it loses none of its ability to shock. I did initially read it with some trepidation as I thought there was no way Herbert could take the story any further but as normal I was wrong, he manages to twist yet another excellent novel out of the rats saga.
This time though its in the aftermath of a nuclear conflict when mankind is at his weakest and the Rats take full advantage.
The story itself is practically non stop action with Herbert throwing in scene after scene of gory mutilations ….. and you thought youd seen it all in The Rats and The Lair !!!
There is a thread of a story running through it which culminates in a final chase scene where the rats show off their ability to swim no less !!
All in all a pretty good read although ...
Advantages: Could read again and again Disadvantages: Not a book for the young
This was the second ever JamesHerbert book I read and I am so glad that I did!
I was able to read this book in a relatively short period of time as I was so addicted to it and really just couldn't put it down for too long.
The story line was really gripping and I actually found myself really getting into the characters lives too!
Its a book that you must pay attention to, I don't feel its a book you can just pick up and put down when you feel like it. I feel you would lose out on alot of the story if you did this.
This was such a pleasure to read and I would definately read it again! I feel it would make a pretty awesome movie!
JamesHerbert's attention to character detail is amazing, you can really feel yourself imaging the character in that situation and seeing how they look and act.
This book could be read again and again! ...
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Product details
EAN
9780230704282
Type
Audio CD
Genre
Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Title
Domain
Author
James Herbert
Narrator
Steven Pacey
Release Date
02-Aug-12
ISBN
023070428X
Manufacturer's product description
The long-dreaded nuclear conflict. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets - if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of irradiated forebears, are waiting. They know that Man is weakened, become frail. Has become their prey...Remember with fear.
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