She endures the worst possible thing for a person to go through and it changes her. Alicia is probably the most interesting character as she struggles with her humanity. I did, however, enjoy the development once we got back to Peter and Alicia. I felt like I never got to intimately know Danny, the bus driver or April the teenage girl and what made them tick as characters. We get a brief amount of time with the characters and the chapters alternate between quite a large amount of people. I was not at all attached to the new characters in the beginning of The Twelve. Eventually we do come back to the characters from The Passage, but The Twelve sort of takes a convoluted path to get back to Amy, Peter and Alicia, among others. These characters are the survivors after the virals have killed or infected most of the people around them, and so they are in desperate search of a safe haven and civilization.
The new characters are comprised of a war veteran, a teenage girl and her brother and a bus driver named Danny among others. Most of the beginning of the book I was wondering what was going on with Amy, Peter and Alicia. Instead of revisiting the characters from the end of The Passage we meet a whole new cast of characters. Justin Cronin’s sequel opens just as the virus is getting off the ground. Unfortunately, The Twelve did not quite compel or immediately hook me the same way that The Passage did.
You know how sometimes it can feel like you are reading a book for pretty much forever because it’s a book that is SUPER long and outside of your usual genre of choice? That feeling totally happened to me while I was reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin, sequel to The Passage which I actually really enjoyed and read within a matter of days instead of months.
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