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The Passage

By: Justin Cronin
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Adenrele Ojo, Abby Craden
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Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old, and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world. She is.... Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row.... He's wrong. FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming.... It is. The Passage.

Deep in the jungles of eastern Colombia, Professor Jonas Lear has finally found what he's been searching for - and wishes to God he hadn't. In Memphis, Tennessee, a six-year-old girl called Amy is left at the convent of the Sisters of Mercy and wonders why her mother has abandoned her.

In a maximum security jail in Nevada, a convicted murderer called Giles Babcock has the same strange nightmare, over and over again, while he waits for a lethal injection. In a remote community in the California mountains, a young man called Peter waits for his beloved brother to return home - so he can kill him. Bound together in ways they cannot comprehend, for each of them a door is about to open into a future they could not have imagined.

And a journey is about to begin. An epic journey that will take them through a world transformed by man's darkest dreams, to the very heart of what it means to be human. And beyond. The Passage.

©2010 Justin Cronin (P)2010 Orion Publishing group

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fantastic story

I loved this book. The story was intriguing and I was hooked right from the start. I enjoyed the journey you take from the different chatacters perspectives and found the narrators easy ti listen to. I highly reccomend this one and are about to go looking for the sequel !

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Addictive

This start to a long story. Overall, addictive but at times the details would drag you out a bit.

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Long, but I actually really liked it!

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Okay, so this was a marathon book. 36hours or something. It was huge. But it didn't feel laborious. It was a good spin on an old idea about freaky vampire people, some classic hero/heroines and solid storytelling. That said, this is the only book in the series I liked and finished.

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Exhausting

All those hours, waiting for a complete end, did not deliver. Over written, confusing and then boring. Had moments of great story telling, that was then met with, well not much.

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Difficult to stay engaged

Found it difficult to stay engaged with the story after the first part.
I persevered based on other reviews but just didn’t work for me.
A few things were left open, or I couldn’t follow the narrative well enough to pick up on some things
Narrator was great

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Won't complete the series

I finished the book but it was not for me. There was too much detail making me lose interest in parts of each chapter. The duration of the book is probably a good indicator of the detail.
I appreciate that this is a great read for many but unfortunately it wasn't for me.

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Too slow paced for me. Very long and not worth it.

Wow, finishing this feels like getting out of prison. There are good moments but author uses way too many pages to get an idea or a feeling across. Will not pick up anymore in this series.

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a commitment that was worth it

The longest book I've listened to but had my hooked the whole way through it.

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Full of deus ex machina moments and waffle

I found this audio book to be full of tedious waffle which when combined with the deus ex machina moments made for a very frustrating listen. The story had promise as noted by other reviewers however it seemed like the author was trying to write his tale so as to fit a film script description of where the cameras lighting and characters should be placed for maximum effect.

I also found it frustrating that a couple of the more interesting sub plots in the the story where just suddenly abandoned and I found myself thinking why on earth didn't the author keep on developing these lines of story and cut back on the waffle instead.

Anyways I abandoned the audio book where one of the main characters gets knocked over by the blast from an RPG that was fired from inside of a building in a hallway at one of the creatures when the character was at least a 100 metres away from the point of explosion. By this stage I had enough of the story's incongruous moments and decided to opt for better fare.

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2nd time around

This is one of my favourite books and I enjoyed listening to it on Audible as much as I did reading it the first time. Really great narration and for such a long story nothing got lost by not actually holding at the book in my hand.

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