Perry returns to the Resident Evil world in Caliban Cove, her second novel in the series. Rebecca, the intrepid eighteen-year-old aspiring biochemist from The Umbrella Conspiracy, is back. The book opens a few weeks after the events in the first novel, and the surviving members of the S.T.A.R.S. Team have been raked over the coals. There's a conspiracy in play, and the team are considered to blame for the destruction of an historic landmark. No one mentions, you know, the zombies. Other S.T.A.R.S. Branches know what's going on, and one of them comes to the survivors, telling them of another lab like the one in Raccoon City located in Caliban Cove, Maine, and they want Rebecca to come help them look for documents relating to the T-virus. The rest of the team stay back in Raccoon City, while Rebecca heads to Maine to see what new dangers Umbrella has in store for the world. When she gets there, though, she finds the biggest surprise of her young career--someone has gotten the best of Umbrella, and the lunatics really are in charge of the asylum...
While the book keeps with the decent writing and breakneck pace of the first installment, there's a lot here that feels facile, including a painfully obvious romantic subplot (which is odd, because there's another romantic subplot that is nicely understated). Not a bad book, but not as good as the first. Hope the series picks up again in the next installment. ***
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