The Passage
Ratings311
Average rating4
The books started ok, and the world building was promising, but then it dragged too long and became too conventional. By the time I was done I had no desire to read the follow-up books.
The books started ok, and the world building was promising, but then it dragged too long and became too conventional. By the time I was done I had no desire to read the follow-up books.
While this is not my usual type of thing, I ended up really enjoying this one. The tone, the pace, it all seemed to be designed to be right up my alley.
Is the book verbose? Yes. I don't mind that if it works, and it does here.
Is there a lot of action? Given the world, the characters, there is surprisingly little, for which I am extremely grateful. Honestly, I am not an action oriented person, and I enjoyed the plot.
The funny thing, and I suspect one of the reasons this works so well for me, is that my guesses on where things were going almost always turned out incorrect in some vital way. And I'm honestly very happy one of my guesses turned out wrong near the end.
But, most important of all, this one pulled me along. I lost a lot of sleep and I suspect the next two will be the same.
While this is not my usual type of thing, I ended up really enjoying this one. The tone, the pace, it all seemed to be designed to be right up my alley.
Is the book verbose? Yes. I don't mind that if it works, and it does here.
Is there a lot of action? Given the world, the characters, there is surprisingly little, for which I am extremely grateful. Honestly, I am not an action oriented person, and I enjoyed the plot.
The funny thing, and I suspect one of the reasons this works so well for me, is that my guesses on where things were going almost always turned out incorrect in some vital way. And I'm honestly very happy one of my guesses turned out wrong near the end.
But, most important of all, this one pulled me along. I lost a lot of sleep and I suspect the next two will be the same.
The books started ok, and the world building was promising, but then it dragged too long and became too conventional. By the time I was done I had no desire to read the follow-up books.
The books started ok, and the world building was promising, but then it dragged too long and became too conventional. By the time I was done I had no desire to read the follow-up books.
While this is not my usual type of thing, I ended up really enjoying this one. The tone, the pace, it all seemed to be designed to be right up my alley.
Is the book verbose? Yes. I don't mind that if it works, and it does here.
Is there a lot of action? Given the world, the characters, there is surprisingly little, for which I am extremely grateful. Honestly, I am not an action oriented person, and I enjoyed the plot.
The funny thing, and I suspect one of the reasons this works so well for me, is that my guesses on where things were going almost always turned out incorrect in some vital way. And I'm honestly very happy one of my guesses turned out wrong near the end.
But, most important of all, this one pulled me along. I lost a lot of sleep and I suspect the next two will be the same.
While this is not my usual type of thing, I ended up really enjoying this one. The tone, the pace, it all seemed to be designed to be right up my alley.
Is the book verbose? Yes. I don't mind that if it works, and it does here.
Is there a lot of action? Given the world, the characters, there is surprisingly little, for which I am extremely grateful. Honestly, I am not an action oriented person, and I enjoyed the plot.
The funny thing, and I suspect one of the reasons this works so well for me, is that my guesses on where things were going almost always turned out incorrect in some vital way. And I'm honestly very happy one of my guesses turned out wrong near the end.
But, most important of all, this one pulled me along. I lost a lot of sleep and I suspect the next two will be the same.
