![]() ![]() ![]() If "The Passage" is the trilogy's Genesis, this second book, "The Twelve," is its Exodus, a complex narrative of flight and forgiveness, of great suffering and staggering loss, of terrible betrayals and incredible hope.īut whereas "The Passage" sets its philosophy, allegory and fictional artifice on the backbone of a terrific blood-curdling thriller, in "The Twelve," the suspense is hobbled beneath a crushing burden of too many time jumps and too many characters. "The Passage," the first in Cronin's planned trilogy, is that creation story - a poetic post-apocalyptic tale that's part supernatural thriller and part philosophical meditation on the nature of humanity. ![]() Thus plagues of vampire locusts, called virals, swarmed the earth, forming the "Twelve Viral Tribes" who laid "waste to every living thing," except for pockets of survivors, and Amy, "a child to stand against them." According to Justin Cronin's prologue in "The Twelve," it came to pass that the world "had grown wicked" and "God looked upon his creation with great sadness," sending a deluge across the earth and the "monsters of men's hearts" were made flesh. ![]()
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