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The Passage

Justin Cronin

3.95 AVERAGE

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

4.5

2 1/2 stars
adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Good read, hard to put down. Really liked this book until the very last page.
challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

Technically DNF but it's due today and I have 4 hours left and I cannot listen to another minute of this. (Good narrators though).

I saw this recommended on Reddit as a "good vampire story".

THIS IS NOT A VAMPIRE STORY. This is a post-apocalyptic soap opera with "fast-zombies". Everything it promised in the beginning was abandoned by the middle. All the action and plot is abused by this shitty "they're married but it's not his baby" bullshit. And all the characters marveling at technology from 100 years ago. Would they not still know what movies are? So much setup to the end of electricity for one awful climax. The only thing this book made me want to do was go back to Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series. I cannot emphasize this enough, THIS IS A SOAP OPERA and not a good one.

Really disappointed in this book. I wanted to like it, but I struggled so much to read it. Won’t be finishing the series

Maybe 3.5 stars? The story kept my attention initially but then it just took so long before gaining momentum again. It takes a while to pick up again - several hundred pages but when it does it gets exciting. I am venturing into book 2.
challenging dark sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

There‘s so much I want to say. But I don‘t know how to put everything into words. So many things happened.

But the ending.. I‘m sad now. I expected that ending, but I was hoping I would be wrong.

And what happened to my man, Theo? Is he still in that bunker, waiting for no one now that apparently everyone died in Roswell?! Did I miss something? Or did he die as well? (EDIT: I just re-read the final pages of the book - seems like the garrison got him out of the bunker to Roswell, if „now we‘re all safe and sound“ according to Sara is anything to go by)

And Wolgast! I knew Amy didn‘t just leave him to die in that forest in the beginning of the book. Or well… he did die to some degree? He‘s a viral now.