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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Språkmässigt en av de ostigaste böckerna jag läst i modern tid, tag exempelvis den första meningen: "Before she became the Girl from Nowhere - the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years - she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy". Vi har versalerade lite fånigt suggestiva titlar och den spännande beskrivningen "who lived a thousand years"; hur kan man inte älska en sån öppning? Dessutom levererar The Passage en av de mer fantasifulla vampyrapokalyptiska berättelserna som jag har sett, även om den med sina 963 sidor (utgåvan jag läste iallafall) tycks ha en viss sköldkörtelproblematik.
Helt k.
Helt k.
Sprawling, with plenty of twists/turns/jumps...and very good. The dystopian/creature of the night angle may not appeal to all readers (Mom...this means you), but the sci-fi/horror angle of the work is fairly minimal in my estimation. Sort of similar to The Stand by Stephen King in that respect. Character and hero development was very engaging, and while the plot at times seemed far-fetched, I don't think it was unbelievable in the near-future context.
If I could, I would have given it 4.5 stars. Maybe a smidge long at almost 800 pages - but I did manage to read it as a library book w/o a renewal. It is the type of story that you can't put down, if given the chance to not put down. I stayed up several nights much past bedtime because it was engrossing and riveting.
Similar but heavier than The Hunger Games, IMHO.
If I could, I would have given it 4.5 stars. Maybe a smidge long at almost 800 pages - but I did manage to read it as a library book w/o a renewal. It is the type of story that you can't put down, if given the chance to not put down. I stayed up several nights much past bedtime because it was engrossing and riveting.
Similar but heavier than The Hunger Games, IMHO.
Really a 4.5 out of 5 but Goodreads won’t let you do that. Almost perfect. What an epic!
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Holy crap this was good. Scary. But good. Supposedly there will be three in this series.
My, this was epic. I can hardly believe it's part of a trilogy. (See, I didn't realize that when I started. How could I not know, though? Everything is a trilogy these days...)
This book is nothing if not thorough. Every character has a long backstory, and every backstory has another backstory. I'm not sure the tale needed all of that, but I got into each and every one, like each was a course to be savored. But in the end, it felt too long, because the entrees in the post-apocalypse portion of the book just weren't the same quality as the appetizers.
You see, ironically, for the length of this thing, half the characters (the ones from the Colony) were flat. Perhaps that's a function of their situation, of living the way they do. I don't know, but none seemed as nuanced as the abandoned characters of the first half. Nor did the story seem original any more. After all the build up to understanding what was behind our twelve vampires, they didn't turn out to be anything particularly interesting. I will give this the benefit of the doubt for now, though, since they exist inside a little box with maybe 100 people in their whole world, and maybe we can't expect more from them?
I liked the changes in pacing, moving from narrative to conference report to diary, and so on. I like the reminder that there's someone living in a thousand years, talking about these events.
As a side note, I live in one of the locations Cronin uses, and it's obvious that he's actually been here. How refreshing!
I'll definitely keep reading. The good was very good and memorable, and the 'bad' was simply mediocre and unoriginal. But I am sucked in now, and I'm hoping for more of the good parts.
This book is nothing if not thorough. Every character has a long backstory, and every backstory has another backstory. I'm not sure the tale needed all of that, but I got into each and every one, like each was a course to be savored. But in the end, it felt too long, because the entrees in the post-apocalypse portion of the book just weren't the same quality as the appetizers.
You see, ironically, for the length of this thing, half the characters (the ones from the Colony) were flat. Perhaps that's a function of their situation, of living the way they do. I don't know, but none seemed as nuanced as the abandoned characters of the first half. Nor did the story seem original any more. After all the build up to understanding what was behind our twelve vampires, they didn't turn out to be anything particularly interesting. I will give this the benefit of the doubt for now, though, since they exist inside a little box with maybe 100 people in their whole world, and maybe we can't expect more from them?
I liked the changes in pacing, moving from narrative to conference report to diary, and so on. I like the reminder that there's someone living in a thousand years, talking about these events.
As a side note, I live in one of the locations Cronin uses, and it's obvious that he's actually been here. How refreshing!
I'll definitely keep reading. The good was very good and memorable, and the 'bad' was simply mediocre and unoriginal. But I am sucked in now, and I'm hoping for more of the good parts.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes