The Passage - Justin Cronin Reviews

The Passage by Justin Cronin is a heavy tome. Which is the reason why it had sat on my bookshelf for quite some time before I got around to reading it recently. Indeed at 784 pages and my copy being in large paperback format, I found myself selecting more comfortable reading matter time and time again over this one, despite a lot of ...  Read the complete review

This is a review of the 2010 book 'The Passage' by Justin Cronin. At 977 pages, it's a bit of an epic and not a book you want to enter reading lightly. I must admit it had me absorbed completely, right from the beginning and I read the whole book in less than a week. It gets there but a preamble first... When I ...  Read the complete review

I bought the passage after reading Deedee's review here. I normally would have read other reviews before buying it, but it was only £2.50, and her review made it sound very much like the type of book I would enjoy. I am not really certain what my genre is for fiction. I like books from a wide variety of subjects, but I tend to be very ...  Read the complete review

Sometimes the people at Waterstones are just so nice that you can't resist their recommendations. One day I got talking with a member of staff about how the whole vampire craze is a bit tired, and how I wished there were more new horror books that were actually horror and not necrophilic romances. She recommended a new release, "The ...  Read the complete review

Just so you know what you're getting (because I have heard some people express disappointment), there is an abrupt time-shift in this novel after about the first 250 pages. The first part of the novel is set in the present - thereafter, the remainder leaps 100 years into the future where a small community of humans are dealing with the ...  Read the complete review

I literally could not stop reading this book; it's thrilling, gripping, exciting and touching. When I first began I wasn't sure if it was for me, yet I found myself turning the pages and suddenly I did not want to stop. The Passage is the only post-apocalyptic novel I have read and I'm not entirely sure what made me want to read it start ...  Read the complete review

The Passage is a highly acclaimed new novel from author, Justin Cronin that has recently dominated the shelves of all good supermarkets and bookshops throughout the whole of the country. Weighing in at a little under 900 pages, it is a lengthy tome and something of an epic read that spans several decades and follows the survival of the ...  Read the complete review

I went on holiday with work for a week a while ago and worked nights. Although I had taken entertainment with me, I just didn't take enough and ran out of things after one night. So during my day off, I popped over to Tesco to pick up a book. Tesco usually have a lot of books in but this store had a small selection so I just grabbed two ...  Read the complete review

I first heard about this book when I was on lovereading.com (a brilliant website, see reviews on it later) and read an extract from it. It sounded very good, and I'm not giving anything away when I say that the start of it was heart rending. My view on it at that point did not match the ominous cover. I resolved to pick it up when I saw ...  Read the complete review