The Passage

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The Passage

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“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”

First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.

As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he’s done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. He is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors. But for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—towards the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun.

With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.

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±1±: Best Buy I'm not necessarily a fan of apocalyptic fiction, and I've never read a book on the end of times more powerful than The Road, but I did enjoy this one especially because I read it on my Kindle and didn't have to juggle the hardcover.

I compare this and the anticipated two future books to S.M. Stirling's series that started with Dies the Fire. However, as much as I like the first book I lost interest in Stirling's series because I could not get past the Dungeon and Dragons language and Wiccan elements, etc. It came across as stilted and unnecessary although the premise -- a failure of technology -- is actually more believable than a failure of a military experiment that creates a form of vampire.

What I did like about The Passage was its flawed and multi-dimensional characters -- the first section that sets the stage read quickly and drew me into Amy and Wolgast as well as her mother and her downward spiral that read so true.

Once the story jumps ahead almost 100 years, the premise of a handful of survivors depending upon an small power grid for survival and knowlege among a few that it would eventually fail range true. Again, I thought the characters were well drawn and I emotionally connected with them. One drawback, as in Stirling's books, was the use of words and terminology used to describe the roles people played in the surviving society -- watches, wrenches, Littles, etc. Just didn't carry a whiff of authenticity. Why not call them guards, mechanics or electricians, and kids or children?

I look forward to a continuation of the story. on Sale!