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product_id: 29900178
title: "Domain"
brand: "james herbert"
price: "R661"
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# Domain

**Brand:** james herbert
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## Customer Reviews

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    A good finale to the trilogy
  

*by M***M on Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2021*

3.5/5The first two books of James Herbert's Rats trilogy were frightening and grotesque, fascinating for the horror lover in me. However, after finishing Book 2, the concept of flesh-eating rats had gone ever so slightly stale (there are only so many scenes where someone's eaten to death before it stops being so shocking), so I decided to give the series a break.I decided to finally pick up Domain, the finale of the trilogy. And wow, does Herbert ramp it up.The story begins with a devestating nuclear attack on London. This book was published in 1984, and no doubt tension from the Cold War between Russia and the States inspired the premise for this book. Think flesh-eating rats are bad? Try that on top of a nuclear holocaust. Radiation, a destroyed city, and a handful of characters battling to survive.Culver is our main character, a helicopter pilot with a natural desire to help others fueled by a dark past. Dealey is a government official. Helping each other in the initial attack, they find themselves in a government-operated shelter. Safety is in reach, but that's not to last, either.There was a lot I liked about Domain. I loved the brief introduction to characters, a glimpse into their lives before they were killed in the initial attack. Though some may argue that it's a waste of time learning a character's names and background right before they perish, I found them to be more interesting than the story's main characters, almost like Herbert had put more effort into developing them than Culver, Kate, and Dealey, three of the main people of the story.The despair and dangers of a nuclear wasteland were also marvellously portrayed. Survivors dying of radiation sickness, feral dogs, bloated insects, survivors who have turned to primal violence, and the terrible lack of help or authority figures upon whom they can lean.A downside of this book is that it could have been about a third shorter without the many "fluff" words that perhaps weren't as taboo in the eighties - "began to (verb)," a personal pet peeve of mine - appeared over a hundred times in the book, disturbing the prose. "Seemed to" was the second worst offender. However, these aside the prose was lovely, even though sometimes it went on and on and on. The book could have been cut without the wordiness that sometimes caused me to skip pages to find the next scene.This didn't ruin the book, though, as there was so much more that was good about Domain than these small offenders that make my inner editor cringe. Though there's an overwhelming sense of hopeless despair, the book is well balanced with a satisfying ending.I recommend the first in the trilogy, The Rats, to those who love horror. Since it's different characters each book, you can really read them in any order. As for Domain, I give it three and a half stars!

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    Domain It Could Have Been A Lot Better
  

*by K***9 on Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2019*

After reading James Herbert's The Rats I looked at the two other novels in the series and choice to read Domain next as I liked the idea of post apocalyptic, horror novel set in the ruins of London. However while the idea was interesting the story wasn't that good as I thought it was going to be.Domain starts off when tension between Middle East and USSR causes a full nuclear war and England for no reason is hit with nuclear war heads turning most of London into a toxic wasteland. Those who are lucky enough to survivor flee to the underground and find a fallout shelter within the subway system. After spending weeks in the shelter the main character and two others hit outside for the first time and see what radiation has done to both animals and people.However after returning back from the outside when one of the engineers who was bitten by a rabid dog one of the survivors takes control of the group but doesn't kill or force anyone to do what he wants as he and the others want to leave the shelter and go outside but nobody else does anything to stop them or take away their weapons. The following night a massive thunder storm causes the underground and sewer system to flood and only a few people make out alive while everyone else drowns.This is where I stopped reading as I got bored with Domain as it has a few scenes with the killer black rats and none of the characters interested me and they were all flat, boring, unlikeable. I strongly felt Herbert got idea from the film called Threads as some of the scenes felt they were just taken out of Threads and put into Domain but adding a horror to it however not going over the top with it like most other writers would do.I was thinking this would be about people trying to stay alive in the ruins of London while fighting gangs, mutated animals, people and the killer black rats but I don't get any of that! What I got was just slow, boring drama set mostly in the underground of London with hardly any scenes with killer black rats.  This is one of the most disappointing sequels I have ever read! Hell some other English horror authors like Shaun Huston, Guy N Smith or John Halkin could do better then what James Herbert wrote here.

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    The Night of the Rats!
  

*by A***O on Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2013*

Monster rat movies were some of my favs as a kid. A few that stand out, Deadly Eyes (duh), Ben, Willard, Graveyard Shift. There was one Italian rat movie that was kind of crappy but had an awesome ending, The Night of the Rats. Set in a post-apocalyptic future (Nukes. In the 80's it always was.) a small band of survivors try to fend off these killer rats while hiding in a bunker. While reading Domain it felt like I was reading a vastly superior novelization of that movie and in doing so inadvertently tying together Deadly Eyes and tNotR for me.Anyways, it was a great read. Very bloody, at times extremely grim but all the while still keeping that guilty pleasure of reading this genre.All I have to say is if you are a fan of The Rats and Lair you have to wrap the story up with Domain.If you haven't read this gruesomely fun set of books, do yourself a favor and check them out.

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