Note to parents raising offspring in a vampire-riddled world: Keep the kids indoors. innocent children go picnicking outside their safe, Viral-free compound on a sunny day. And in a pivotal, hellish episode set in 79 A.V. Some resemble humans, albeit ageless ones, and are most conspicuous at the last part of the first century A.V. Others, like a teenage girl named April, briefly pass through to create offspring who will matter later. Some cross over from “The Passage” and are still reeling from that book’s catastrophic final battle, which was by far its most galvanizing section.
But it has much more trouble figuring out how much attention other characters deserve. “The Twelve” visits Amy reliably from time to time. And she has started behaving like Joan of Arc. By the latter part of “The Twelve” she has aged about a century, though she doesn’t look a day over 20.
Cronin’s promise to his daughter that he would write a book with a young girl as its heroine, used to be a child known as The Girl From Nowhere. Suffice it to say that Amy, who arose from Mr. And one more is added in “The Twelve,” but that one doesn’t truly count. One was lost in “The Passage,” but the undead have been known to sneak back into three-book story lines. They were the Twelve, but they make their grand appearance in “The Twelve” as the Eleven. And they shall be called Virals.” 2:11: “And Amy was left to wander the ravaged earth alone, with none but the Virals for company.” 4:7: “For as in the time of Noah, God in his design has provided a great ship to cross the waters of destruction and Amy is that ship.” 4:8: “Therefore will the LORD make whole what is broken, and bring comfort to the spirits of the righteous. The monsters of men’s hearts shall be made flesh, devouring all in their path. 1:3: “And the LORD said: As in the days of Noah, a great deluge shall sweep over the earth and this shall be a deluge of blood. In a preposterously self-important opening summary “The Twelve” explains what preceded it as if quoting from the biblical writings of a disciple. It moves from the steaming wreckage left by “The Passage” to a battle cry for the third installment: “You bastard.
Cronin’s trilogy is “The Twelve,” and it will spoil nothing to reveal that this book is strictly a gap filler.
When “The Passage” arrived in 2010, the market for splashy vampire tales was already drenched in blood.ĭid anyone’s heart leap at the thought of a sequel? Or two? The second installment in Mr. It sprawled all over the post-apocalyptic map as a horror story, western, father-daughter tear-jerker and paramilitary action-adventure. For a best-selling book that spanned a thousand years, demolished human civilization, unleashed marauding, virus-infected vampires on much of America and turned a sweet little girl named Amy into an unlikely superhero, Justin Cronin’s “Passage” made a remarkably weak impression.
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