You can feel the rats watching you along with all the other wildlife in the forest and this feels a lot truer in this country setting. Lair brings subtle differences to the Rats saga, this time being set in the countryside rather than a city environment and rather than this being just a difference to make create a different story, Herbert pulls it off really well. The author’s writing has really come a long way in the intervening years and by the time of writing this, his 6th novel, you can really recognise the style of writing as being essentially Herbert. What the book lacks in originality now, due to it being a sequel, it definitely makes up for in horror and gore. The first of the sequels to The Rats is a vast improvement to the original in terms of suspense and action.
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