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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
Think Walking Dead, but with a much better plot.
92 years after a vampiric virus escapes the world is at an end, and the final pockets of humanity struggle to survive. Part 28 Days Later, part World War Z (the book), part Daybreakers (but good), part the giant telepathic brain monster from A Wrinkle in Time. You know what I'm talking about. Or you don't. Anyway.
Psycho-terror meets nosferatu-terror. Cronin creates a vampire-based apocalypse and hive-mind ruled world that are both horrific and entertaining. I've never had such great nightmares as I had while reading this (Please don't tell me I'm the only one that enjoys nightmares...), so take that as you will.
If you want vampires that do anything but sparkle, don't mind high rates of attrition when it comes to beloved characters and enjoy apocalyptic tales of government testing gone wrong, this is a pretty safe bet.
Psycho-terror meets nosferatu-terror. Cronin creates a vampire-based apocalypse and hive-mind ruled world that are both horrific and entertaining. I've never had such great nightmares as I had while reading this (Please don't tell me I'm the only one that enjoys nightmares...), so take that as you will.
If you want vampires that do anything but sparkle, don't mind high rates of attrition when it comes to beloved characters and enjoy apocalyptic tales of government testing gone wrong, this is a pretty safe bet.
The Passage is like a cake: it's got layers... And layers on top of layers. 766 pages - or 36 hours and 52 minutes if you listened like me - of layers to be exact. And also the cake is kind of dreary but you still really enjoy it because it's well made and has enough sweetness to keep you coming back for more.
The book deals with the downfall of civilization by vampire and a third of the way through it jumps to 100 years post apocalypse. Cronin's take on vampires are super creepy and there are loads of action-packed sequences that kept me hooked. It's quite long and while at points I did feel like it should've been split up into two books, overall I really enjoyed the characters and their stories.
The book deals with the downfall of civilization by vampire and a third of the way through it jumps to 100 years post apocalypse. Cronin's take on vampires are super creepy and there are loads of action-packed sequences that kept me hooked. It's quite long and while at points I did feel like it should've been split up into two books, overall I really enjoyed the characters and their stories.
This book was insane. It's slow in parts definitely and epic length read. It starts in one place and ends in a completely different place. By the end I couldn't stop reading and when I got to the last page I was upset there wasn't more. If you want to read a dark, apocalyptic, saga of a story definitely give this one a go. It's worth the slow parts to see the store unfold.
I'm not a big sci-fi/apocalypse fan...but the first half of this book had me staying up late with burning eyes every night saying "just one more chapter, just one more chapter". I was disappointed in the ending..but maybe because it didn't really end...Cronin is just setting things up for the second book of the trilogy. Overall, extremely entertaining.
This book was a very interesting concept, and for that reason, I thought it was really entertaining. However, even despite its substantial length and numerous stories/plot lines contained in one book, I still felt like the ending was rushed and incomplete. I would read another book from the same author because I liked his writing, but I would not pick one that takes as much time to invest in as this one did.
I hated this novel, I heard that once I get past the first part where various characters are shown with no connected plots it should get better but it didnt. The plot isnt bad but the writing is painful
What a tome. 950+ pages of a genre I could not decide on - but after googling feel quite safe in saying 'apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction'. Initially I would have said horror - dracula; maybe science fiction - experiments gone wrong; fantasy even? I have googled plot lines of the 2nd and 3rd books - more of the same, all of which have equally stunning reviews and ratings, but think this is enough for me!
Having said all that, this is really really good, if somewhat overwhelming and decidedly unpleasant in its subject matter. I couldn't stop reading this, staying up to the small hours several times. It is fantastically put together, really good characters, much of it believable, horrifying, dazzling. I wouldn't say I loved it, but it was a great read, transporting me to somewhere I didn't particularly want to go, but still holding my breath to read what was going to happen next.
So many reviews of this already on line and everywhere else so very brief plot outline. An experiment that started in South America to develop a virus gets spectacularly out of control, resulting basically, in the death of America. There are always survivors in these things - think Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and that is what the bulk of the novel is about. It is also the story of a little girl, Amy, who is infected with the virus, but due to her youth does not die, becoming another type of being, the only person who can stop the complete destruction of the world as we know it.
So good, so scary, so challenging, so terrifying and now I can punish myself further by watching the TV series 'loosely' based on the novel, whatever that may mean. Reviews so far - average, maybe proof yet again that the book is always better than the film/TV series.
Having said all that, this is really really good, if somewhat overwhelming and decidedly unpleasant in its subject matter. I couldn't stop reading this, staying up to the small hours several times. It is fantastically put together, really good characters, much of it believable, horrifying, dazzling. I wouldn't say I loved it, but it was a great read, transporting me to somewhere I didn't particularly want to go, but still holding my breath to read what was going to happen next.
So many reviews of this already on line and everywhere else so very brief plot outline. An experiment that started in South America to develop a virus gets spectacularly out of control, resulting basically, in the death of America. There are always survivors in these things - think Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and that is what the bulk of the novel is about. It is also the story of a little girl, Amy, who is infected with the virus, but due to her youth does not die, becoming another type of being, the only person who can stop the complete destruction of the world as we know it.
So good, so scary, so challenging, so terrifying and now I can punish myself further by watching the TV series 'loosely' based on the novel, whatever that may mean. Reviews so far - average, maybe proof yet again that the book is always better than the film/TV series.
The mixture of genres is quite deliberate, because this is a brave and mostly successful attempt to cross genres. It remains teen fiction in its intent, but like the best its ilk it transcends those pigeon-holes. Cronin is nothing if not ambitious and draws on – and quotes – everything from the Tempest to those ghastly vampire things to make his point. What gives this novel a chance at greatness is its moral core, something all good speculative fiction must have – the idea of redemption through suffering. Like Tolkien's masterwork, it is contemporary in acknowledging the dark truth of the Twentieth Century, that we are the author's of our own destruction while grasping at a more eternal truth, always dimly present: that it was meant to be. Lacey recognises that the story of Noah lives in Peter and Amy – so many Biblical parallels and references. The story has some time to run yet, before the main characters can reach any kind of promised land.