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A review by insertsthwitty
The Passage by Justin Cronin
2.0
Justin Cronin does have talent, or potential, at least, but this book is too long by half (and the first one of a trilogy! Come on, man!).
I would have been peer-pressured into giving it three stars as my friends did, but... the beef I have with the people in The Passage is that their feeling don't evolve, or lack motivations. People fall in and out of love (a love that lasted decades), things end up happening, and the why is never important. Amy is somehow the Chosen One before being turned - which is another thing that's never picked up on, we just have to accept it. And last thing - the characters aren't smart, we're just told they are. It's a bit of a contrast to the other book I'm reading now - Harda - where political manoeuvres and complex heroes are shown as smart (or smarter) through their actions. In The Passage, everyone is a chosen one.
It reads quickly, and the concept is interesting, but this and the fact that Justin Cronin just straight up focused on the US and ignored the rest of the world, makes it a bit of flat read for me.
I would have been peer-pressured into giving it three stars as my friends did, but... the beef I have with the people in The Passage is that their feeling don't evolve, or lack motivations. People fall in and out of love (a love that lasted decades), things end up happening, and the why is never important. Amy is somehow the Chosen One before being turned - which is another thing that's never picked up on, we just have to accept it. And last thing - the characters aren't smart, we're just told they are. It's a bit of a contrast to the other book I'm reading now - Harda - where political manoeuvres and complex heroes are shown as smart (or smarter) through their actions. In The Passage, everyone is a chosen one.
It reads quickly, and the concept is interesting, but this and the fact that Justin Cronin just straight up focused on the US and ignored the rest of the world, makes it a bit of flat read for me.