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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
Great first 250 pages, but totally lost momentum. Turgid stuff. Life's too short!
Spoiler aleert.
It's not perfect, but my immediate thought is how much it feels like he read the walking dead. A prison? A farm for shelter?
It's not perfect, but my immediate thought is how much it feels like he read the walking dead. A prison? A farm for shelter?
I read this because I have received the second in the series as a free copy to review.
It is about a secret governmemt programme that trying to extend the lifespan of human beings. They had been using criminals who had been on death row, and been injecting them with this virus. They decide to try it on a younger patient, Amy, aged 6, who has been abandoned by her mother at a convent. The guys bringing her in muck up the collection. They bring her to the site and she is infected, just as it goes horribly wrong and the virus infects workers at the site, and then the population
Jump forward a number of years and humanity is holed up in enclaves, protected from the virals, as the infected beings are called, and are eeking out an existence. On a recce to the power source the members of one enclave are attacked. One guy, Peter is isolated, and Amy protects him from the virals.
The enclave is attacked, and Amy enters and joins them. They discover that there is a site that is transmitting to Amy, so a few members of the enclave decide to go to Colorado to meet those transmitting the signal. They travel across the now barren American landscape, sheltering at night, and meet with others as they travel.
This is a enormous book, almost 1000 pages, and whilst is is a fairly easy read, I felt that it took too long to get going. The action starts around 600 pages, when the pace of the narative picked up and it got better.
It is about a secret governmemt programme that trying to extend the lifespan of human beings. They had been using criminals who had been on death row, and been injecting them with this virus. They decide to try it on a younger patient, Amy, aged 6, who has been abandoned by her mother at a convent. The guys bringing her in muck up the collection. They bring her to the site and she is infected, just as it goes horribly wrong and the virus infects workers at the site, and then the population
Jump forward a number of years and humanity is holed up in enclaves, protected from the virals, as the infected beings are called, and are eeking out an existence. On a recce to the power source the members of one enclave are attacked. One guy, Peter is isolated, and Amy protects him from the virals.
The enclave is attacked, and Amy enters and joins them. They discover that there is a site that is transmitting to Amy, so a few members of the enclave decide to go to Colorado to meet those transmitting the signal. They travel across the now barren American landscape, sheltering at night, and meet with others as they travel.
This is a enormous book, almost 1000 pages, and whilst is is a fairly easy read, I felt that it took too long to get going. The action starts around 600 pages, when the pace of the narative picked up and it got better.
Interesting chapters at the beginning then suddenly it's a lot of info dump when introducing characters. I hated it. Too many flashbacks man.
I was sold on this thinking this woul be about Amy's adventure after being saved by Wolgast. But no! We meet her again decades later after introducing a new set of characters. Of course each characters have flashbacks too!!
I was sold on this thinking this woul be about Amy's adventure after being saved by Wolgast. But no! We meet her again decades later after introducing a new set of characters. Of course each characters have flashbacks too!!
Post apocalyptic world (check)
Vampires (check)
Full of dread and melancholy (check)
In a world where vampire novels have become love stories for middle aged women, The Passage stands out with real unstoppable, namesless, faceless monsters. (think back to Jaws of Andromeda Strain). Though the book is long, weighing in at 766 pages, it is absolutely worth the time you will spend reading it. It was so good I barreled through it in 3 days forgoing sleep in order to find out what happens next. Look for the sequel, The Twelve, this fall.
Vampires (check)
Full of dread and melancholy (check)
In a world where vampire novels have become love stories for middle aged women, The Passage stands out with real unstoppable, namesless, faceless monsters. (think back to Jaws of Andromeda Strain). Though the book is long, weighing in at 766 pages, it is absolutely worth the time you will spend reading it. It was so good I barreled through it in 3 days forgoing sleep in order to find out what happens next. Look for the sequel, The Twelve, this fall.
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Actually gave up at 89% but I spent too much time to dnf it
challenging
dark
slow-paced
adventurous
dark
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:
Complicated
Not my usual genre, but it got me through a couple flights and a few hours stuck in SoCal traffic. I liked the characters and the story was engaging, but... I think that's enough for me, I won't bother with the sequels.