A review by rosekk
Domain by James Herbert

3.0

It was a weird way to end the series, because the feel of the book was entirely different from the first two. In the first two the rats were the central focus of the book, and provided all the horror. In this the nuclear devastation and everything it brought with it overshadowed the rats a little. The main characters were still fairly interesting, although Kate's nature wasn't very clear to me. It was an interesting take on an apocalyptic setting, but I didn't feel like it concluded much about the over all story. We still don't really know what the whole deal with the rats is - why the brains? Why the white mutants? It's not even clear of there's always only ever 1 main white rat, or if there are many. All the knowledge about the rates, developed over the first two books, never really comes to anything. It was still an enjoyable read though - as a stand-alone book I'd have given it 4 stars, but I docked a star for its place in the series.