The Passage (The Passage, #1) in Pick-a-Shelf

Oct 04, 2013 Rebekah rated it liked it

Shelves: genre-fantasy, genre-thriller, genre-science-fiction, genre-science-fiction-dystopia, genre-horror, genre-science-fiction-fantasy, genre-fantasy-paranormal, series, genre-apocalyptic-post-apocalyptic, genre-paranormal-vampires

This is one of the most frustrating books I have ever read. It took me over a month to power through it. I was going to give up many times. It is densely written & could have used some good editing. There are too many characters to keep straight or care about. Occasionally characters would DIE and I would have no recollection of who they even were. It is dreary and dark and depressing. And yet, I kept reading it. And reading it. Once I was about 40% in, I did not want to quit and powered through ...more

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Oct 18, 2010 Tien rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller, science-fiction, usa

A truly engaging read except for the beginning where I felt like it's taken so very long to set up and there were just too many characters to keep track of.

However, once background has been set and we moved onward by approx 90 year, it was much improved. The world as we know it no longer exists: a research gone wrong has infected most humankind to something otherworldy and not many has survived. Hope is something elusive & illusionary, it is a thin sliver of light which they espied but not many ...more

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Feb 08, 2011 Sunflower rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-read-2011

Short answer: if you have read "The Stand" and "The Road" you don't really need another dystopia novel. Especially as long as this one.
Longer answer: It has a slow start, only really got going at the 100 page mark, the plot started to get really interesting at about half way, then had patches of brilliance followed by lapses. And as for the ending: you've got to be kidding me Mr Cronin!!! I finished 766 pages just to find a setup for the next book?? Were you hoping for a Harry Potter-like pheno ...more

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Dec 22, 2011 Jenn rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2016-cover-to-cover

Apocalyptic zombie vampires. Three words to sort of describe this tome. It had a lot of layers. And took quite some time to plow through. But enjoyable. I did prefer the first 1/3 of the book - the making of The Twelve, I suppose. However the last 2/3 were interesting in the aspect of their survival.

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Dec 05, 2010 Bea rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Oh my goodness! This has been on my TBR for over 4 years, and I am just now reading (well, listening to) it. I do know why the book languished on the TBR; it was because of its length. That is why I decided to read it in audiobook form.

What a good book! It is interesting, amazing, tragic, mysterious, and just plain well-written. I will definitely look for another book by this author.

The only drawback to me was that I am visual and probably would have more easily followed the various characters ...more

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Aug 30, 2010 Arlene rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, sci-fi, 2012-50-book-challenge

Scary! This takes the term "going viral" to a new high, or low. When secret lab releases a deadly virus into the world, several individuals try to find the remaining "normal" people who are holed up in several places. ...more

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