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The Twelve by Justin Cronin

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Hello to my second unfinished book of the year. I just recently reviewed and really liked the first one, but this guy just wasn’t worth it. This is the sequel to The Passage and the same apocalypse with roughly the same characters, but you could tell me this was a whole new author and I would 100% believe you. The first book was all about worldbuilding the end of the world and the survival instincts of a wide band of characters. The second book boils down to “ladies be gettin raped (and other lady part adventures)”. It’s bad. I hopped over […]

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3/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

Liked it enough to not watch the show

The Passage by Justin Cronin

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This is really just in-depth, easy to read, nice and long science fiction. Emphasis on long – we’re talking like 900 pages, and it doesn’t really suit short burst reading. But if your flight is delayed four hours and the Delhi airport is the worst, you can knock out a good long chunk of it and feel pretty good about yourself. Also apparently the book has been made into a TV show but all I know about it is that the kindle version has two of the TV show cast on the cover and I didn’t recognize either. They made […]

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3/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Holy freaking crap this was a long book.

The City of Mirrors: A Novel (Book Three of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin

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cbr10bingo… Home something home So as my title suggests, this book was INSANELY long.  And I’ve read IT by Stephen King!!!  Ok I just checked, It was twice as long as this book.  Why did it feel like the other way around???  I think Mr. Cronin went to the Stephen King school of TELL ME EVERY FREAKING DETAIL ABOUT EVERY FREAKING THING, and then took it fifty five steps further.  Even though it doesn’t sound like it, I did like the book.  I just absolutely hate hate hate it when I feel like it could’ve been half the length.  I […]

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9/7/2018 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

The title leads you to believe it’s about the virals, but it’s really about the humans

The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin

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Ok so this is the second book of the Passage trilogy.  I thought I just made the name of the trilogy up, but then I looked at the title on Amazon (which I copied and pasted into here), and it’s totally called that.  Yay me!  Like I say in my review title above, the book is more about the people dealing with the twelve “master virals” (I definitely made that title up).  The goal of most of the main characters in this book is to defeat the twelve.  Basically if you kill the master viral (one of the original twelve […]

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7/23/2018 's CBR10 Review No:34 |

Way more involved than I originally anticipated, but still good!

The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin

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I’m not entirely sure where to start this review.  I guess I’ll start at the beginning, and how I got into reading this book.  I’m one of those people who sees that a new movie / TV show is based on a book and wants to immediately read the book.  It’s happened so far with: A Handmaid’s Tale, A Wrinkle in Time, The Darkest Minds, and this book.  I’m sure there were others too!  I always want to read the source material before I see how it’s translated onto the screen.  I watched the first season of The Handmaid’s Tale, […]

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6/27/2018 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

Two books to wrap up my CBR9

The Passage; Pardox Bound by Justin Cronin; Peter Clines

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So my CBR9 didn’t go quite as planned. I took on a lot of extra work for my job, which cut down on my reading, and was sick for a pretty large chunk of the year, so I’m not going to really come close to the double cannonball I had planned. Still, what amounts to basically a one-and-a-half cannonball is nothing to sneeze at. The Passage by Justin Cronin (4 stars) I’m having trouble wrapping my head around the apparent fact that “only” 10 reviews have been written of this book in CBR history. I read it back in 2011 […]

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12/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:77 |

Okay, But I Have Questions

The Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin

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So, this series apparently got a lot of hype when the first book, The Passage, first came out.  I was, presumably, living under a rock at the time, and so hadn’t heard of it.  In fact, I didn’t really hear about the series until the final book came out, at which point I decided to read them all. And, well, the first half of the first book was great, the second half was good. The second book was okay, verging on bad and the third book was solidly okay if a little too made-for-Hollywood for me. So, I figure the series averages out as […]

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6/20/2017 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

Inside this gigantic book that I sort of liked was a fascinating novella that I loved.

The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

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This year marks my sixth Cannonball, and yet, somehow, this is the only book in The Passage trilogy that I’ve reviewed. I’m not quite sure how that happened, but I imagine it can be blamed on babies and whatnot. I loved the first book, The Passage. I thought it was exciting and original, and I was name dropping Justin Cronin left and right. He was going to be the next Stephen King, and this trilogy was going to be his version of The Stand. You haven’t read The Passage? OK. Well. Its the story of what happens to society after […]

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9/14/2016 's CBR8 Review No:47 |


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