Why I loved 'The Passage'

(If you want to remain totally unspoiled about The Passage, do not read this post or the linked reviews.)

It will surprise no one who's read Alcestis that I've thought about death often in the last few years. Partly this is an occupational hazard of writing about the underworld; partly it's related to my own life, as my father was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2003 and died in late 2008, while I was working on the last revisions of the book.

If you read this blog regularly, you also know that I...