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