So while I was gone I did do a little reading.... okay so maybe like 1500 pages of Justin Cronin. I really didn't mean too read the whole thing. Both whole things.
They was really good. I was amazed. I don't usually like post-apocolyptic stuff, but this was mesmerizing. It did get a little heavy in The Twelve with all the shooting and tanks and guns and stuff, but it was tempered with some other stuff too. The Passage was really the better of the two books. There seemed to be more emotion and description and feeling. There was also more mystery. I was still wondering what Amy was going to do... what her purpose was. I liked imagining how things would be "after" people. I learned a lot about what might be needed to survive a vampire virus: guns, food, a basement, and lights.
The premise sounds pretty lame, but it worked here. A crazy virus spreads quickly across the US making everyone either dead, or a vampire. These are not just regular vampires, but more animal like beasts with no control over their appetite. There are pockets of people that survive, which is described in The Passage, and then in The Twelve, those different pockets of survivors combine and then fight against the twelve original vampires.
I will definitely read the third in the series The City of Mirrors when it comes out in May 2014.
On a different note... I'm done with school and I can now read what ever I want for hours on end without having to do homework. I am also going to spend more time writing. Finally!
