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katep27 's review for:
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
4/5stars
This was recced to me by my wonderful boyfriend uwu its one of his favorite series and a book he had been recommending me basically since our first date, so I was excited to pick it up - PLUS it follows my current favorite trope of "end of the world, most of the population is killed out and we follow a small group of survivors"
Firstly, I LOVED the premise it was incredibly interesting and a wonderful mix of several books i've really enjoyed in this same vein (I'd say this is book of m/severence/station eleven meets the oracle year meets twilight because duh). The science/story behind this whole apocalypse was probably one of my favorites recently and I loved how we saw the before, during and after the "apocalypse" in this book, in chronological order rather than in flash backs. i hadn't really seen this in a while in one of these types of books.
I also really liked how the writing style in this book was almost more like literary fiction than scifi/fantasy. This, to me, made it feel a lot less like a fictional, mostly-for-fun apocalyptic story and more a comment on humanity and society, and also really made you think a little bit more than the average book in this category.
I also LOVED a LOT of these characters - Amy, Lacey, Wolgast, Grey, Carter - they were all AMAZING and definitely characters who are going to stick with me for a long time, unlike many character whose names I immediately forget after finishing the book lol
But, that being said, if you have read this book, you can tell from that list of characters that all of those people were in the first part of this book. That was where this book lost a bit of love from me, was the fact that the beginning 200 pages were SOOOO far above the rest of the book it was a little off putting. The ending 100 pages were also great, but that middle part honestly felt like a completely different book. it was incredibly dragged out and I found myself getting very bored after a little while of it. There were SO MANY characters and I cared about maybe 2 of them (Peter and Michael) and so many things about the current world that weren't really explained.
That was really my only problem with this book - which did kinda suck since the middle part is obviously the biggest part of the damn book lol but the ending has me VERY interested for the second book and I'm hoping this first book was just a little draggy/boring because it was having to set up a lot. that being said, the beginning and end were enough to overshadow how tedious the middle felt - and I still absolutely FLEW threw the middle too
Definitely highly recommend for people who are interested!!
This was recced to me by my wonderful boyfriend uwu its one of his favorite series and a book he had been recommending me basically since our first date, so I was excited to pick it up - PLUS it follows my current favorite trope of "end of the world, most of the population is killed out and we follow a small group of survivors"
Firstly, I LOVED the premise it was incredibly interesting and a wonderful mix of several books i've really enjoyed in this same vein (I'd say this is book of m/severence/station eleven meets the oracle year meets twilight because duh). The science/story behind this whole apocalypse was probably one of my favorites recently and I loved how we saw the before, during and after the "apocalypse" in this book, in chronological order rather than in flash backs. i hadn't really seen this in a while in one of these types of books.
I also really liked how the writing style in this book was almost more like literary fiction than scifi/fantasy. This, to me, made it feel a lot less like a fictional, mostly-for-fun apocalyptic story and more a comment on humanity and society, and also really made you think a little bit more than the average book in this category.
I also LOVED a LOT of these characters - Amy, Lacey, Wolgast, Grey, Carter - they were all AMAZING and definitely characters who are going to stick with me for a long time, unlike many character whose names I immediately forget after finishing the book lol
But, that being said, if you have read this book, you can tell from that list of characters that all of those people were in the first part of this book. That was where this book lost a bit of love from me, was the fact that the beginning 200 pages were SOOOO far above the rest of the book it was a little off putting. The ending 100 pages were also great, but that middle part honestly felt like a completely different book. it was incredibly dragged out and I found myself getting very bored after a little while of it. There were SO MANY characters and I cared about maybe 2 of them (Peter and Michael) and so many things about the current world that weren't really explained.
That was really my only problem with this book - which did kinda suck since the middle part is obviously the biggest part of the damn book lol but the ending has me VERY interested for the second book and I'm hoping this first book was just a little draggy/boring because it was having to set up a lot. that being said, the beginning and end were enough to overshadow how tedious the middle felt - and I still absolutely FLEW threw the middle too
Definitely highly recommend for people who are interested!!