{"id":2557,"date":"2018-03-21T20:19:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/the-strain-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:59:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:59:03","slug":"the-strain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/the-strain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      FlumeAward &#8211; The Strain                Discussion page for <em>The Strain<\/em> by Guillermo del Toro<\/p>\n<p>A thriller where vampires are actually evil and pretty disgusting. Lots of action. It isn&#8217;t flying off the shelves here, but it&#8217;s moderately popular and I&#8217;ve definitely seen teens checking it out. &#8211; Katie Spofford, Wadleigh Memorial Library<\/p>\n<p>I really like this book. It&#8217;s creepy and gross and full action. I&#8217;ve already read #2 and am looking forward to #3. The author is the director of Hell Boy and Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth so I think teens would find that interesting.<br \/>Kelly Budd<br \/>Keene High School<\/p>\n<p>This book scared me and at times completely repulsed me, but, boy, did it keep my attention! It is an excellent antidote for the vampire-romance books. (You&#8217;ll never look at vampires the same way&#8230;) Well written, lots of action, and fun &quot;scientific&quot; explanations of popular vampire lore. (The audiobook version was excellent, btw!)<br \/>Bobbi Slossar<br \/>NH State Library<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Bobbi that it is an antidote for the vampire\/romance novels (gag) and I liked the way that the vampires developed almost like a viral cancer taking over and ruling the body. I on the other hand found myself bored with the tedious vampire slayings. That said, I think that there is a market for this and obviously there are sequels coming. I did totally object to the book ending with an alcoholic taking his first drink in years. I think that this will draw a certain audience. ~ Sharon Flesher-Duffy, Nashua High South      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FlumeAward &#8211; The Strain Discussion page for The Strain by Guillermo del Toro A thriller where vampires are actually evil and pretty disgusting. Lots of action. It isn&#8217;t flying off &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"btn btn-inverse btn-normal btn-primary \" href=\"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/the-strain-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flume-award-titles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}