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fancycwabs 's review for:
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
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.