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The Twelve Passage Justin Cronin Books

The Twelve is the second book in the The Passage trilogy. It continues the story of the key characters that survived Book 1 some 5 years after them reaching Roswell - and the events that occurred there. In addition, early on in the book it introduces a couple more time perspectives. One set in the days immediately after the original collapse of Project Noah and the over some 30 years before the events of the main timeline. We are provided with some new (and familiar) characters and different back stories that contribute to the overall telling of the trilogy. I enjoyed this as it gave it depth. Although I wish I had found the list of characters before I got to the end of the book!

I started this book immediately after Book 1. It is a bit darker - in terms of lows that mankind has and will stoop to. That said the story is enthralling. Within minutes of finishing The Twelve I downloaded the final book City of Mirrors.


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The Twelve Passage Justin Cronin Books Reviews

In a tautly written tale both dark and poignant The Twelve continues the story begun The Passage. North America has vanished beneath a plague of humans transformed by a viral plague into blood feasting but cruelly intelligent monsters. The few remaining humans live amid the wreckage and try to survive. But a larger will is at work, and Amy - The Girl From Nowhere - is moving toward an apotheosis of incredible dimensions and leading her friends with her. They will meet in a frigid concentration camp to face humans who have willingly chosen to serve the virals in an unholy alliance. Who lives, who dies, what becomes of those we met in the 1st book all continues here.
I've read the whole trilogy and am writing this a couple of months after so excuse me if I mess up a little or don't remember 100% of what was in there.

So there are basically two ways of looking at this book - comparing it to the others in the series and the others in the genre. Compared to the genre it is way ahead, but to the rest of the series it is probably the least, however not by much.

If you've read The Passage you already know that this author knows how to write, and you can see how much he loves his character as he spends a lot of time on them and makes them very unique. Some people might not like that so much time is spent on characters that for instance simply end up long ago relatives to a main character, but I do enjoy the writing style and brevity immensely so that does not bother me at all. And in the end he really needs to tell of Gray, Guilder and Lila so it was nice to have the Last stand in Denver in there to have some change of scenery between chapters. But once again they are so well written that you can't help but enjoy them. Altough some of the characters being so much fun can bum you out when their story concludes about a third of the book in.

The rest of the book ties really well with the first third and is beautifully written as well. And again reading about the characters before makes one feel omniscient later. What I mean by that is that when the future characters like Alicia, Sarah, and Peter do meet some of the characters (I am not telling which) you know exactly who they are meeting and exactly where they are coming from which is awesome. Plus everyone that actually made it into the future had a pretty logical and sensible path and there are no leaps of logic or anything like that.

Now on to the not so good - there are some big coincidences... now in a land without cellphones and mass transit etc. two character meeting a thousand miles away coming from different directions and different means is kind a crazy... but you got not two, rather like 10. Also some of the things that some characters and groups have done really don't make sense if you spend more than a minute thinking about it, but I can't say more since it will be a spoiler.

The antagonists and the climax of the novel are pretty great, however be warned that the book turns into pretty dark places unlike the previous one. I've read interviews that the writer's daughter helped out with plot ideas and whatnot when she was pretty young (inspiration for Amy) but here I guess she grew up because s**** gets serious with some rape, murder, slavery, savage beatings, and general oppression going on in the second half of the book. I love this kind of stuff, but be warned it gets pretty dark.

Overall if you love survival post apocalyptic stories this where you want to be, and although there were some things that irked me i enjoyed it immensely. And knowing what comes next having read the third one it is worth even more as there are things coming that you simply do not want to miss by skipping on the series.
The Twelve is a fabulously written tale — suspenseful, lots of action, touching scenes, and most of all, a wonderful style of writing with many passages that are difficult to forget because of their almost poetic style. Although this series is about vampires (which is not something I would typically read about), this book is a twist on the creation of this standard vampire plot. What I found most interesting in this read is how the characters come across with their feelings and their desires. It’s a difficult story to put down.

Like the author’s first book in this series, The Passage, I loved this book. But unlike The Passage, which I rated five stars, I’m giving this a four star. I felt it just misses for a few reasons. Several times at the start of a new section of the book, I had trouble understanding where it was taking place and what was the timeframe. He moves back and forth from present to the past, which is fine, but it was disorienting to try and figure out where in the timeline I was reading. I had a little trouble understanding some of the characters and whether they had been in earlier scenes. A few times after reading several hundred pages, the plot would then reference a character who may have been in earlier scenes, but I was often unsure. I felt this created some confusion.

The few critical issues won’t prevent me from reading the final book in the series. I’m happily hooked on this series.
The Twelve is the second book in the The Passage trilogy. It continues the story of the key characters that survived Book 1 some 5 years after them reaching Roswell - and the events that occurred there. In addition, early on in the book it introduces a couple more time perspectives. One set in the days immediately after the original collapse of Project Noah and the over some 30 years before the events of the main timeline. We are provided with some new (and familiar) characters and different back stories that contribute to the overall telling of the trilogy. I enjoyed this as it gave it depth. Although I wish I had found the list of characters before I got to the end of the book!

I started this book immediately after Book 1. It is a bit darker - in terms of lows that mankind has and will stoop to. That said the story is enthralling. Within minutes of finishing The Twelve I downloaded the final book City of Mirrors.