The Passage
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Ballantine Books, 2010.
You may have been wondering, “Where the heck is Laura?” during these past few weeks. Well, dear friends, I’ll tell you where I’ve been–stuck with my nose buried in this monster of a book, The Passage. I received an ARC of this at a conference and, despite the 700+ pages, decided to start a long process of lugging this brick around until I finished it. It’s not exactly a page turner, for me anyway, but I slogged through every page for, despite it being the opposite of the type of books I like, it was compelling enough that I absolutely had to finish it.
A suspense/horror/scifi novel, The Passage is about vampires (or a vampire-like monster anyway), the end of the world, the last remaining people of the human race and their salvation. Epic plot to go with the page length. Recommended for readers who like Stephen King’s epics. For me, I found The Passage more intriguing and interesting than frightening, but that’s fine by me.
Tags: action, adults, horror, Justin Cronin, scifi, vampires
