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The Twelve by Justin Cronin

Don’t read, not worth it

The Twelve by Justin Cronin

March 20, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Justin Cronin

lowercasesee's CBR11 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Justin Cronin ·
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Liked it enough to not watch the show

The Passage by Justin Cronin

March 11, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Justin Cronin

lowercasesee's CBR11 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Justin Cronin ·
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Holy freaking crap this was a long book.

September 7, 2018 by kfishgirl 3 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Amy, apocalypse, cbr10bingo, Justin Cronin, virals

kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:45 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Amy, apocalypse, cbr10bingo, Justin Cronin, virals ·
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The Twelve by Justin Cronin

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

July 23, 2018 by kfishgirl 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: Justin Cronin

kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: Justin Cronin ·
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Way more involved than I originally anticipated, but still good!

June 27, 2018 by kfishgirl 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: apocalypse, Justin Cronin, vampires, virals, virus

kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: apocalypse, Justin Cronin, vampires, virals, virus ·
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Two books to wrap up my CBR9

December 26, 2017 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Justin Cronin, Paradox Bound, Peter Clines, post apocalypse, the passage, time travel, vampires, viral outbreak

ingres77's CBR9 Review No:77 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: Justin Cronin, Paradox Bound, Peter Clines, post apocalypse, the passage, time travel, vampires, viral outbreak ·
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