The Rats by James HerbertMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
A fun little horror read, only 197 pages a lot of these taken up by graphic descriptions of people being eaten alive by rats.
The human interactions are not greatly written, a lot of "he did this and then she did that" but lets face it, you don't read this sort of thing for the conversations people have.
I like how we are introduced to each of the people before they are attacked by the rats. Privy to a few short minutes of their lives and what they are thinking before the rats come. It does give you that personality to be sorry for that they died in such a way.
I didn't really like Harris, the school teacher turned mutant rat specialist, and found the bits where he is taken into the commitee fold to help with the rat problem perhaps wasn't too realistic. The few plot holes there were I am sure were more due to the shortness of the book and trying to fit everything in. Then again I felt chapter 8 could have been left out completely and don't really see why it was even written.
I have had this book on the shelf for a while and finally decided to pick it up after it was mentioned in another book I had just read, Wicked Girls by Alex MarwoodThe Wicked Girls. I will not go out of my way to find the next book in this 4 part series but if I stumble across it I will definatley purchase it.
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