Has anyoone read this book yet?
I saw a review on it the other day and it sounds like another vampire book but more grown up!

Hi there. I actually posted the same question a week ago with only one response. On the whole I found this quiet addictive reading - 2 nights in a row reading 7 hours straight!!! ( until 3am ). What I didnt know is that it is the first of three books - so several of the most interesting stories dont have a 'resolution' by the end. The other two books havent been written yet , so will probably be a couple of years off. It was a really scary book to read in the middle of the night.

enjoy

littlepickle

I've just finished it and, like PP, I read it non-stop over 3 nights. It's a gargantuan page-turner that's for sure. I'm also tempted to call it a pot-boiler but that would be a little unfair as it is well written and complexly thought out with many interwoven timelines, motivations and character connections. In fact, I think Cronin is an English Lit professor at a US university. I just can't help but feel it was written with filmic intentions in it's structure and descriptions. I bet you someone has bought the rights. It's also to be developed with two further volumes to come.

If you love post-apocalyptic narratives with lots of suspense and fear factor, this is for you. A little mystical in some parts but definitely better than say any Dan Brown crud. Very scary in all honesty. I've read that it's a lot like Stephen King's novel the Stand. I haven't read Stephen King since I was about 13 but I'm tempted to read this one just to compare it to The Passage.

I am so there! I've heard a lot of good things about it too and have it on reserve at the Library. It's a bummer that it's a trilogy because I much prefer to have the whole series written so I can read them one after the other
slint, the review I read compared it favourably to the stand. Basically, they said it was like the stand but better. Can't wait!

have just had it recommended on my vampire books thread! have found it on ebay so think its another purchase!

Its sitting on my bedside table while I finish some other books. I can't wait to get stuck into it though!

Oh I have this on my "to read list"

Aaaaah. That explains why there was so many loose threads at the end.

I enjoyed the first half heaps and found the second half boring really struggled with it and found my self just skimming through it.

I though it was brilliant. And I woudln't really call it a vampire story. It's more (and totally different) than that.

Apparently the idea was formed when his daughter asked him to write a story about girl who saves the world. IF you google you'll probably find the story, very sweet.

Anyway it's a great journey, a great read.

I very much got this impression.

It sort of feels like The Stand meets Earth Abides meets I am Legend.

I actually found the first section quite horrible - awful characters with awful motivations and a lot of unnecessary back story. I think the first 250 pages or so could easily have been condensed into a 3 page prologue and the book would not have suffered at all. I probably wouldn't have persisted except that the book cost so much. I'm glad I did though, as my enjoyment of it increased significantly once it got to the meat of the story.

I think im up to the part where the girl was left at a church or something by her mother so im only really at the start but I havent been able to get back to reading it since we brought our DS2 home from the hospital 9 weeks ago.

Another who read it in a few nights.

Loved it, very much like The Stand

I really enjoyed this one too. I didn't realise there were more books coming, so that's great to hear. I did think while reading that it was quite similar to The Stand which I also loved.

Hurrah!! Loved it.

I found it slow to start and then really got into it and enjoyed it - Finished it in a weekend.

Really looking forward to the next one, wonder when it'll be released?

I read an interesting article about the book, author & how the book came about so have bought it & hope to get to it soon. I'm glad to hear people think it similar to The Stand, I really enjoyed it.

Another one who could not put it down!!!
Further books explains the "up in the air" ending!!!

I will probably forget all the loose ends and have to re read it again before the next book comes out!!!

I was just coming into the books section to ask "Please oh please tell me there is a sequel to The Passage"!

I just finished it yesterday and absolutely loved loved loved it! I took me about a week and a half to read it , but if I didn't have certain obstacles like continuously sick kids etc, I would have finished it in a couple of days also.

So glad there will be follow up books - I have never seen a book with an ending that lends itself to a sequel as much as the passage

Off to recommend it to everyone!

I'm just up to the part where Peter has come into it - curiouser amd curiouser...

The first section gave me nightmares 2 nights running - it was very unsettling but unreal nonetheless!

I'm very excited because I have this on hold at the library and I got my letter today to say that it's available!

Finally finished - hurrah! Loved it - I actually liked it better than the Stand...

I'm about half way through and wishing that I could just sit down and finish it off!

I was a bit like that too but then when I had the time I found that I didn't WANT to finish it.

why? Was it because it got bad towards the end or because you didn't want to finish it because it was so good?

basically I didn't want to finish because I was enjoying it so much (and don't have anything else to read at the moment!) BUT of course I wanted to see how it ended even though I knew there would be lots of loose ends...

phew! I'm glad it was because you were enjoying it!

I've just gotten up to the bit where Amy has entered the camp and everyone is having weird dreams and odd stuff is happening