The Fall Strains as the Middle of this Promising Trilogy

The Fall suffers from the dreaded middle of the trilogy syndrome badly. I loved The Strain, the first book in this vampire's take over the world trilogy. It set up the "problem" nicely, giving us great detail as to the biology and make-up the vampire cabal that had been living off humans forever.

And we meet our protagonists. Abraham Setrakian, who first encountered the vampire mastermind behind the current plot to wipe out humans while trapped in a concentration camp during World War II. Eph Goodweather, the CDC scientist, his son and lover. Then we get the gang bangers who take up the human cause, and the rat catcher. All band together to stop the fall, or least prevent humankind from going totally down the tubes.
Too bad but by the end of this book, it looks like humankind is in for being at the bottom of the food chain behind the vampires.

While this book as great action as we watch the futile effort to stave off what seems inevitable, and this novel does certainly advance the story, it could have been written in half the number of pages and words. It starts to seem like a grade B horror flick that breaks the reader's suspension of belief instead of serious novel about the fall of the world to vampires.

This middle book of the trilogy is a fun read nonetheless, but I hope for better in the final chapter of the story. And very much look forward to it.