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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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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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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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Good yarn but way too long

A good story with a promising start. Unfortunately there is so much unessessary waffle about the characters emotional states that it was hard to stick with it at times. Not sure I'll go back for the second book

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Can't ask for anything more.....

Not my usual genre, but so glad I took the leap.
All I want is a book that can elicit truly emotional reactions for the people and/or what's happening to them. This story definitely achieved this!!
Loved that, even though the book was long, the story didn't get tedious or boring.
I wasn't sure about the narration at the start, but got used to it quickly.
Now to book II 😊

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Epic

Scott Brick is one of my favourite narrators and the story is classic epic tale.

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Great series!

Loved this book and the other 2 in the series! Gripped me from start to finish.

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Great!

Loved it. The narrators were great. Couldn't stop listening to it.Must tead again. 😀❤ ENJOYED.

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must read

it was read exceptionally well. i loved it. it never occurred to me how much of the book i did not retain when i read it. but when its read to you, you seem to take more of the story in.

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!! EPIC !!

This story takes a while to wind up, but when it has finally finished the winding you are rewarded for enduring through with characters that have unique identities within a story that has loads of depth.
At first I was a bit disappointed and impatient with the wind up, but now I have finished this book I cannot see any other way to paint the picture required.
I loved the story and have purchased the next story.
This is a truly epic story, with a huge timeline, and I can't wait to see where it all ends up.

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