Bats Out of Hell

Short little horror book based around genetically modified bats that get out of a lab and spread a version of meningitis which causes widespread destruction. (Hits a bit too close to home even though it was written close to forty years ago.) I liked the writing, which made it a quick and entertaining read. The horror was well put and verbally really enticing. This book came with some shortfalls though, the pacing was way to fast and I felt that this book could have been much better if it was longer and more thought out. Plot holes happened occasionally and I never really connected with any of the characters. The part where the teenagers raided the house I didn't like at all. I don't think Smith really knew the implications of how traumatic those events would have been and how they would have affected the characters involved. The fact that the scene is just not really talked about afterwards is just unrealistic and off putting. It should have been a much bigger deal.