Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born."įirst, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. The Passage features a huge cast of characters, including lots of unnecessary cannon fodder, spans a time period of more than a hundred years, gives us a bunch of improbable twists that I saw coming a mile away, some pretty decent prose that occasionally meanders into overwrought literary look-at-me-showing-off-my-MFA-I-am-not-j ust-a-genre-writer territory, and forty million vampires of the non-sparkly kind. Tasty but nutritious and not too fattening.īut every now and then, I want to order a 13" meat-lovers pizza supreme with extra cheese and eat the whole damn thing. I tend to prefer compact novels nowadays, something tightly-plotted with tons of characterization and clear, concise writing.
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