Gorman, Edward

AVERAGE REVIEW SCORE:

2 out of 5

(1 book)

Dean Koontz's Trapped

(Art by Anthony Bilau)

The graphic novel adaptation of a Dean Koontz story.  A woman and her son find themselves snowbound in their house with a horde of genetically engineered intelligent and aggressive rats escaped from a nearby laboratory.

This book spends almost half its length setting the scene, introducing its characters and beginning to build the tension and that half of the book was very enjoyable.  Unfortunately, once the rodent antagonists actually put in an appearance, things go rapidly awry.

The problem is that the idea of super-rats who set out to murder a random woman and her son is pretty silly.  Once these rats have spiked the All-Bran with poison and sabotaged the engine of the Jeep, all sense of being rooted in the real world has been cast aside.  I was onboard with the idea of rats which are unusually large, intelligent and aggressive towards humans but when they actually begin plotting my suspension of disbelief snapped.

The whole thing is then wrapped up far too fast (turns out you just have to shoot the rats) and leaves you with an aftertaste of "What the hell did I just read?".

2 out of 5

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