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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
Absolutely LOVED this book! I bought the second one the moment I finished it. Bummed the third one won't be out until next year.
This is a long and epic book. What a wonderful journey!
This is a long and epic book. What a wonderful journey!
A couple of pages of hundreds of notable praises to the book, and then a quite disappointing story with characters introduced and then just vanishing without any role in the general plot.
I very rarely retread books, but I wanted to refresh my memory for the sequel. I loved this book even more the second time, all 1000+ pages of it!!
It's like Lost all over again. Twist, turns, cliffhangers...oh my. At least the second book is now available. Maybe a third of my questions will be answered.
Overall, it's a read you won't want to put down once you get into it.
Overall, it's a read you won't want to put down once you get into it.
Did not expect to like this book so much! Unique concept and incredible world-building, and has the right amount of fantasy elements to still keep it somewhat grounded. While the first half was a little harder for me to get through, I flew through the second half. Looking forward to finishing this trilogy.
You know how in Michael Crighton's work, there's a cool (if implausible) scientific setup, a load of action set pieces, and then towards the end a completely asinine visual thing because Crighton thought it would look cool in the movie version? Like the dinosaur with built in Predator cloaking technology in The Lost World or the nanobots that assemble to form hive-mind Voltron in whatever his killer nanobot book was?
The Passage has the first two: cool, implausible scientific setup, lots of action set pieces, but no completely insane final boss form. This isn't that great a loss--but if Cronin's really looking to join the ranks of Stephen King and the aforementioned Crighton, he's going to have to work on making his endings make no sense whatsoever, instead of the perfectly reasonable (if slightly deus ex machina, like The Stand except without the Dr. Strangelove homage) ending he delivers here.
The Passage has the first two: cool, implausible scientific setup, lots of action set pieces, but no completely insane final boss form. This isn't that great a loss--but if Cronin's really looking to join the ranks of Stephen King and the aforementioned Crighton, he's going to have to work on making his endings make no sense whatsoever, instead of the perfectly reasonable (if slightly deus ex machina, like The Stand except without the Dr. Strangelove homage) ending he delivers here.
Not my usual type of book, but I was hooked from page 1. Excellent novel of hope over adversity.
I started reading this because of the show that just started, but the book just reminds me too much of The Walking Dead, which I could never get into. It's just too much death and destruction. I need to read something happy now.
adventurous
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No