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The Passage
by Justin Cronin
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.