Book Review - The Passage by Justin Cronin
Trilogy- The Passage In these encouraging times when the swarm of invisible deadly Covid virus finally seems to be going out from the globe, I read this science-thriller-fiction trilogy recommended by my younger brother. The chronological order of this voluminous vampire-virus trilogy is: 1st book- The Passage (2010), 2nd book- The Twelve (2012), and 3rd book- The City of Mirrors (2016). Melding apocalyptic fiction with straight-up horror, these books swoop over in time…i.e. from the near-future, when a classified team of government scientists experiments to formulate a medicine that will render forever immunity to 1,000 years in the far-future when a leftover human is striving to exist and circumvent the " virals " that have annihilated most of the world population. It is an epic and gripping tale of the catastrophe and survival story of Amy, the lead character. This trilogy has all the masala from vivid characters across centuries, shocking scenery, emotions, the spill o...