The Passage Download

ISBN: B003QL14NC
Title: The Passage Pdf A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

New York Times best seller

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! THE PASSAGE airs Mondays at 9/8c.

Named one of the 10 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, and 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) 

first part good, second part meh SPOILER ALERT.The one thing I am less a fan of than post apocalyptic stories is vampires, so I stay as clear from these books as possible but I was flying to Europe and needed a big fat book to keep me company, this book seems very popular, and there's no teen romance, so I bought it. I can only agree with many reviewers that the 1st part of the book is entertaining and well written, and the second part, the one set in the future, misses the mark. The biggest problem for me was that all characters speak with the same voice. If you read a piece of dialog by itself, you cannot tell who's speaking. Several times I was a little distracted and had to go back and double check who was talking to whom. Several characters are very caricatural, like the obligatory combat chick, and the obligatory evil government guy. Another problem I had was the fact Cronin can't seem to make up his mind whether the vampire plague is a scientifically based thing, an engineered virus, or some mystical stuff with telepathy and souls. You can't have it both ways. And finally, I really wish we'd stop resorting to the immensely lazy device of "you kill one, you kill them all". Even bees don't die on the spot if you kill the queen. But of course, it's a lot easier than having to go after each and every vampire, monster, killer robot, or whatever, right? You just have to have a showdown between the good guy(s) and the evil queen and then they all get to live happily ever after. Yawn. But Cronin is only one in a very long list of offenders, so it would be unfair to single him out.So because Cronin can write pretty well overall, because the 1st part of the book is good, and because some of the characters were interesting (except the stereotypes I mentioned earlier) the book gets 3 stars. But I will not be reading the sequels.It takes an effort to write such intriguing plot into narrative this boring I'm fun of post-Apocalypse sci-fi. It's a guilty pleasure transcending to scary tales told around campfire in the childhood I guess. I watch The Walking Dead. I read King's books.When I stumbled onto Cronin's trilogy it felt like Christmas. I felt even more though when first chapter of the book reminded me of Crishton novels. And... it all fell to pieces. Quagmire of the flat faceless characters, bunch of hints on some plot turn that never materializes. At some points it feels like the author as lost in his narrative as his characters are lost in their dreams.I'm still fighting through Passage. With dread I look at Kindle's hint "5 more hrs left in the book". Passage is not the book that keeps you reading well into the night despite Monday morning rapidly approaching. It's a book that you read as a chore forcing yourself to swallow few pages at a time. Spare yourself a torture, skip it. I feel like my 5 hrs belong to something better.

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