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Just finished The Passage, by Justin Cronin. Wow, that is about the first word that springs to mind. A 700+ page book that I read in the span of 2 days (my Kindle nearly passed out), that is how hooked I was. I finally polished it off a little after 3 A.M this morning after a marathon reading session (my GF is out of state, I needed something to occupy me).
“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”
I thought this story was going to go one of two ways: a completely cliché filled retelling of every other like-themed book and movie, or something different, that would catch me by surprise. It turned out the surprising thing was the fact that it DID use some of the most well known thought fodder, but in a way that left me nodding, thinking that every myth, legend, or campfire story really could have some basis in fact.
The funny thing about the story is I can't quite shoehorn it into one theme. To me it seems a mash-up of creature-feature horror, biological thriller, and a post-apocalyptic / rebuilding / survival yarn. And I mean that in a good way. I'm not sure how he did it, and made it so believable, but he did. For me at least. I set the book down a couple times and felt like I could flick the TV onto a news channel and see a live broadcast of what I was just reading about.
It had everything I like in a book.
Of course mileage will vary.
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