- The Passage,
- The Twelve
- City of Mirrors
White heroic action guy transports and protects a girl who is somehow immune to the plague.
... Sound familiar? 
One season of a TV adaptation was made. Audience 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
But critics didn't like it. Not renewed.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Justin Cronin is a graduate of Harvard and former professor of English at Rice.
He's competent.
But I don't buy this bloated, confusing trilogy.
It should be 8-9 books in logical sequence rather than 3 massive volumes in seemingly random order.
It's sometimes compared with King's The Stand (1978) — but that's being very generous. The Stand is much better.
King said he liked this series, however.
The Passage focuses on Project Noah, a secret medical facility where scientists are experimenting with a dangerous virus that could lead to the cure for all disease, but also carries the potential to wipe out the human race.
... begins in 2016 and spans more than ninety years, as colonies of humans attempt to live in a world filled with superhuman creatures who are continually on the hunt for fresh blood. ...
... two sections: the first and shorter section covers the origins of the virus and its outbreak, while the second is set 93 years after the infections, primarily following a colony of survivors living in California. ...
I quite enjoyed the long book and was keen to press on.
Good characters. I was never lost.
It's said the middle book of a trilogy is typically worst.
The Twelve is worse.
Four plot lines. Too many characters.
Too much confusing jumping forward and backward in time.
I didn't like the characters and their stories nearly as much as in the first book.
The ending was probably the best part. It did tie up some of the many, many loose threads. Of course it made no sense. How does an explosion kill super beings and yet leave mere mortals alive?
The City of Mirrors (2016) is the final book in the trilogy.
The back story of patient zero, Tim Fanning, is pretty much a novella embedded in the 3rd book. It is interesting, however.
Ending of the trilogy?
Doesn't make much sense to me.
This could have been 3 excellent books rather than a hodge hodge of 8.5 rambling books.
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