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erinnbatykefer 's review for:
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
I got through 12 discs and then couldn't take it anymore. What is the point of this book? Someone needed to edit this with a hacksaw; as far as I can tell at least 50% of this didn't need to be there to advance the plot OR build the characters.
Honestly, the worldbuilding in the future dystopia sections isn't all that great, either. And the vampires themselves? They're horror movie monsters, lacking the detail and/or novelty required to break away from every other monster script out there. I kept waiting for the hook, since EVERYONE was reading this a little while ago and it's gotten rave reviews, but the hook never came. The instant the narrative jumped forward in time, I was deeply bored and didn't have the patience or energy to sit through another long build-up toward nothing, or worse, the grown-up equivalent of "and then he woke up" at the end of a story.
Honestly, the worldbuilding in the future dystopia sections isn't all that great, either. And the vampires themselves? They're horror movie monsters, lacking the detail and/or novelty required to break away from every other monster script out there. I kept waiting for the hook, since EVERYONE was reading this a little while ago and it's gotten rave reviews, but the hook never came. The instant the narrative jumped forward in time, I was deeply bored and didn't have the patience or energy to sit through another long build-up toward nothing, or worse, the grown-up equivalent of "and then he woke up" at the end of a story.