The Passage

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3.9

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Justin Cronin

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls “a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”NOW A FOX TV SERIES!NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Esquire • U.S. News & World Report • NPR/On Point • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BookPage • Library Journal “It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.” An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world. Look for the entire Passage trilogy: THE PASSAGE | THE TWELVE | THE CITY OF MIRRORS Praise for The Passage “[A] blockbuster.”—The New York Times Book Review “Mythic storytelling.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Magnificent . . . Cronin has taken his literary gifts, and he has weaponized them. . . . The Passage can stand proudly next to Stephen King’s apocalyptic masterpiece The Stand, but a closer match would be Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a story about human beings trying to generate new hope in a world from which all hope has long since been burnt.”—Time “The type of big, engrossing read that will have you leaving the lights on late into the night.”—The Dallas Morning News “Addictive.”—Men’s Journal “Cronin’s unguessable plot and appealing characters will seize your heart and mind.”—Parade

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Author

Justin Cronin

Pages

784

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published Date

2010-06-08

ISBN

0345516869 9780345516862

Ratings

Google: 4

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"Great story but why so much details ? Is it a pro writers thing or just the way it is ? "

Meshkat

"Interesting take of vampires, being treated like a massive virus and then pods of surviving humans living 'Attack on Titan' like. Will be continuing to the next book. "

Sarah

"An absolutely amazing read. The author has a very specific style of weaving small details into a whole that fully immerses you in the world. I loved the multiple storylines, you can’t come into this book just expecting a contained story of a few characters - be prepared for a vast story focused instead on the apocalypse of North America. I cannot recommend this enough. "

Zenith

"Book 1 of 3"

Brandy Wright

"Fantastic story the whole trilogy is amazing!"

Melissa

"I listened to this on audio book. It was an okay story. I think I possibly had higher expectations because I had seen previews of the television show (no, I never have watched it) so I was expecting it to be along those lines (and maybe it does get there in the 2nd book or something), but I found it to be very slow and it didn't hold my interest enough to continue reading the next book."

Jody Baer-Swanson

"Very scary! "

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Ryane Passno

"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 the rest over one weekend. You feel like you are one of the characters in the book, like something dreadful is always looming or that something, anything, to explain all of this is going to occur, and then....it's more and more of the same. The atmosphere is good and tense and several sentences made me stop and think. I had weirdo dreams after I read this before going to sleep. Other times, I felt there was way too much detail, too much ennui, and too many re-tellings of the same story, just from a different perspective. We did not need diary entries."

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Rebekah Travis

"The strain trilogy"