His writing is lyrical and evocative, at times verging on poetic. He develops characters with tremendous depth.
What makes The Passage shine are the characters and the quality of the writing. This is one of the best renditions of all these ideas I’ve read. Even the hive-mind wrinkle the author incorporates into his vampires is a familiar idea.īut none of that is a problem. The ending offers a faint wisp of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I Am Legend, zombie movies, The Walking Dead, et al. We witness the moment it all goes wrong and then spend the rest of the novel living in the post-apocalyptic world of the few survivors. It’s a man-made apocalypse story built on fairly generic story tropes. There’s a roster of bad guys, a cop with a conscience, and a Chosen One whose arrival can save mankind.
Cronin presents the standard well-intentioned scientist whose work is hijacked by the military (which, as expected, doesn’t go well). The plot isn’t terribly original: a virus is unwittingly unleashed by the government which turns people into something very much like vampires. On paper, there’s a lot I could criticize about The Passage by Justin Cronin.
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