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The Passage, which I read in a week of sleepless nights while working and going to grad school, was one of my favorite books of the past few years. It's sequel, however, took me months to plow through, and I only resolved to finish it out of leftover good feelings from the first book. The Twelve is filler material and nothing more. Everything cool that happens in The Twelve was introduced or set up in the first book, and this feels like a bridge to stretch the story out into a trilogy.
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I didn't realize that The Passage was part of a series, but this book read like the middle of a trilogy - with all the disappointment and cliched cliffhangers. Lots happens and it's a gripping read, but the ending sets you up for the final showdown.
I didn't find the cast of characters appendix until I finished the book. It would've been so much more helpful to have it in the front. ...more
I didn't find the cast of characters appendix until I finished the book. It would've been so much more helpful to have it in the front. ...more
Cronin really is a good writer. And I loved the Passage. But this follow up was profoundly disappointing. Some of this may be due to my own preferences: I love the post-apocalyptic novel genre for its many portrayals of humanity in extreme situations, and unlike The Passage, The Twelve is a vampire novel, not a post-apocalyptic novel. But there are other problems too. We're kept reading and in suspense more by the abrupt switches between narrative threads and through deliberately vague events an
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I really enjoyed most of the book. The end didn't quite come together for me.
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Good. I think I even liked it better than the first one.
This was a much more satisfying novel than the first in this series. I came into it with little enthusiasm but that changed very quickly. Emotions ran higher (might have cried once or twice), actions and consequences seemed to be more dire and compelling, got to be one of those "can't put it down, have to know what's coming next" reads.
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Powerful storytelling about people - their choices, their relationships, their destinies.
Aug 08, 2012
Natalya
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Cynthia
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it was amazing
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Rasika
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