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A review by bexlrose
The Passage by Justin Cronin
3.0
Just finished reading The Passage by Justin Cronin, which I started reading in 2010. Obviously, it having taken me 7 years to fully read, you can probably tell I wasn't exactly enamoured with it all the way through. The difficulty I find is giving it a star rating. The book is split into 3 parts, and in my mind, it should have been split into 3 separate books, but since it's already the first of a trilogy, it would have to have been a series and I'm guessing that for some reason Cronin didn't want that. There's a sort of epic ring to the word 'trilogy' that 'series' just doesn't capture. Shame he wasn't really considering my review when he published the books...
The first part of The Passage would have got 5 stars easily. Bloody brilliant, scary and thrilling.
The second part was entirely different, it being about a colony in in the future rather than a catastrophe happening now. I found it interesting at first and then dull in the extreme. 2 stars.
This book is 879 pages long. By the third part I had already put it down a number of times, but here was where it really collected dust for some time. There was quite a lot of action in this portion of the book, but I just felt tired. My reading tastes have changed a whole heap in 7 years, and to be honest this book just isn't really for me anymore. 2 stars again.
Essentially, this would be an easy 2 star book, except for that first wicked part. If only that had been a novel in itself...
As it stands I'll give it a 2.5, which makes it a distinctly average book.
The first part of The Passage would have got 5 stars easily. Bloody brilliant, scary and thrilling.
The second part was entirely different, it being about a colony in in the future rather than a catastrophe happening now. I found it interesting at first and then dull in the extreme. 2 stars.
This book is 879 pages long. By the third part I had already put it down a number of times, but here was where it really collected dust for some time. There was quite a lot of action in this portion of the book, but I just felt tired. My reading tastes have changed a whole heap in 7 years, and to be honest this book just isn't really for me anymore. 2 stars again.
Essentially, this would be an easy 2 star book, except for that first wicked part. If only that had been a novel in itself...
As it stands I'll give it a 2.5, which makes it a distinctly average book.