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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Review: The Passage

The Passage



Synopsis from Amazon:
When a secret project to create a super-soldier backfires, a virus leads to a plague of vampiric revenants that wipes out most of the population. One of the few bands of survivors is the Colony, a FEMA-established island of safety bunkered behind massive banks of lights that repel the virals, or dracs—but a small group realizes that the aging technological defenses will soon fail. When members of the Colony find a young girl, Amy, living outside their enclave, they realize that Amy shares the virals' agelessness, but not the virals' mindless hunger, and they embark on a search to find answers to her condition.

My review:
I bought this book from Amazon. After all of the buzz surrounding this book a couple months ago, I was really excited to read it.  While I didn't think that it quite lived up to all the hype, I did enjoy it.  It was really well written.  There were some parts where some things that were not explained very well and I was confused for a bit, but most of them eventually resolved themselves.  This is a big book, but it went really fast because the story was so engaging.  It kept my attention most of the time, and I didn't want to stop reading.  Overall, I really enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend it to others.

3 comments:

  1. Heard great things about this book, but right now the thickness is intimidating 'cause I've got too much on my plate. Yet, I keep hearing that it's a quick page turner so maybe I'll pick it up sometime.

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  2. Glad to hear it was good. I just got a copy!

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  3. Hi, visiting from Book Review Wednesdays. I actually preordered The Passage because the hype got me so, well, hyped up. I quite enjoyed it, and am looking forward to the second book.

    I'm your newest follower.

    If you want to check me out (and maybe return the favor ;) here I am: The Book Frog.

    Becky

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