5/15/2023 0 Comments The passage vampire bookThe world of the Time Before." Beautiful. "For a moment," he writes, "she was held captive to them, in mute awe of them, these memories of a lot world. We caught up with bestselling author Justin Cronin, whose novel The Passage depicts a post-apocalyptic world of psychic vampires. Early in the book Cronin gets at that, as his master viral-killer, Alicia, senses snippets from the past - a songbird, sleeping children - in the consciousness of the creatures she's about to kill. "The Twelve" does offer an occasional keen insight into just how awful it would be to live decade after decade hooked on blood: It's not their fault they're vampires. Even the vampires - the "virals" - barely register, either by description or action. It had me up late.īut he seems bored as he sets up the inevitable showdown in 97 A.V., where the characters are more wooden and the settings far more generic. It's there that Cronin's storytelling regains much of the verve it had in the first book: It's detailed and propulsive. The best parts, though, are set in the past, as the plague crisscrosses the country and we learn the backstory of what's up later.
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