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| My Copy of The Passage |
Publication Date: January
1st 2011
Genre: Adult
Fiction,Science Fiction,Mystery
Pages: 963
Publisher: Orion
Publishing Group
My Copy: Bought
(Paperback)
Buy: Amazon
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Goodreads Summary:
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.
This book is a beast and i was intimated by it for a long time. It sat on the
shelf collecting dust for over an year but once i started it, it was hard to
put it down. It is a first part of a trilogy and in that context it reads like
an origin story. A government experiment gone bad which results in the collapse
of the world as we know it.
The books
starts and you are hooked within the first fifty pages. You connect with the
characters and are interested in knowing what happens to them. Then something
happens which threw you off completely. Personally, it took me sometime to get
used to the change in story but once you get past the initial shock and the
story moves forward it becomes this page turning epic survival saga.
It's
essentially a vampire novel and before that puts you off, trust me it's one of
the good ones. I enjoyed every bit of it. Justin Cronin's writing is exquisite.
The characters are multi layered and the story is fast paced. The book is very
intense at times and has been compared to The
Road by Cormac McCarthy (I
haven't read that one) and Stephen Kings works.
The amazing thing about this books is that even after reading
almost 1000 pages and still wanted more by the end. It was that interesting. I
loved the start, there were some hiccups in the middle but the end made up for
it. I would definitely will be picking up the next books in the series. Give
this book a read, i promise you won't regret it.
