More of wot I have read…

The Passage by Justin Cronin

This was a slightly odd book, it spent a long time with some characters developing their relationship, throwing the aside and then moving to a different location and time and doing it all over again. There is a lot about the journey and the consequences of the disaster that has befallen them all, but not so much about what really happened. It is a long book and sometimes it drags a bit, but there are times of high tension and the overall effect is of a world that has fallen low and is struggling as its characters are to find their way in it. The ending was abrupt and unexpected and not entirely satisfying, but then we found out it is part of planned trilogy.



‘Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world. She is.

Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row. He's wrong.

FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming. It is.

THE PASSAGE.

Deep in the jungles of eastern Colombia, Professor Jonas Lear has finally found what he's been searching for - and wishes to God he hadn't. In Memphis, Tennessee, a six-year-old girl called Amy is left at the convent of the Sisters of Mercy and wonders why her mother has abandoned her. In a maximum security jail in Nevada, a convicted murderer called Giles Babcock has the same strange nightmare, over and over again, while he waits for a lethal injection. In a remote community in the California mountains, a young man called Peter waits for his beloved brother to return home, so he can kill him. Bound together in ways they cannot comprehend, for each of them a door is about to open into a future they could not have imagined. And a journey is about to begin. An epic journey that will take them through a world transformed by man's darkest dreams, to the very heart of what it means to be human. And beyond.

THE PASSAGE’