City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin (The Passage Trilogy)

[Pedro Del Mar]

If anyone here hasn't read The Passage trilogy then I 100% recommend you go and pick them up.

The Passage
The Twelve
City of Mirrors

I've mentioned on here a few times now that The Passage is one of my all time favourite reads. Late last night (very late!) I finished City of Mirrors which is the third and final part of the trilogy. I read the whole book - and it's a big one - in a couple of days which is most unlike me these days, I just don't have the time like I used to. It's written incredibly well, you can see just how far Cronin's writing has come on with this last novel. It's absolutely amazing. It had me spellbound in parts and other chapters I almost forgot to breathe it was so gripping.

If you enjoy apocalypse, vampires, adventure, love then go immerse yourself in The Passage.......

 

[Null_Zone]

I wasn't all that impressed by City of Mirrors, sections just didn't seem to fit into the pre apocalyptic world we'd seen and the timings never quite rang true.

-Fanning can leave a suitcase unattended in Grand Central Station, pick it up a day(?) later with no questions asked? When previously Woltgast nearly gets shot by Homeland Security for trying to pull rank at checkpoint. The War on Terror is meant to have the US round tight but no one cares?

-Lear goes from a shoe-in to a Nobel prize to a quack who'd be lucky to get a job at MacDonalds given his professional reputation. (ok this isn't from the most reliable of sources, but still Fanning was flattering about the guy in almost every other timeframe).

-Virals seemed to have stopped within tight geographic limits, people still use the Panama canal years after the outbreak?

-The disease had already spread to Europe in the first two book, but that is forgotten.

All in all it comes across as the Justin Cronin had a major case of writers block and decided this manuscript was "close enough", which wouldn't be so bad for many authors but the first two books were of such a high standard it feels a major let down.