I also enjoyed the love story between Peter’s son and a deaf woman raised by Sara. The moment is both chilling and tragic, a fraught reminder of how far we would go to survive, and how much those in charge must do to keep us from surviving at the cost of those more vulnerable. When Sara points out that the guns won’t be much use against virals, she is told that they aren’t for virals but rather humans who would stop at nothing to find refuge.
There’s a moment where children and their mothers are ordered to hide in a particular building while other able bodied adults are conscripted to fight, and Sara and her colleagues are armed with guns to protect them.
The cast of characters has grown so large that I honestly couldn’t keep track of who all of them were anymore, but the sense of tragedy when the settlement is attacked still had an emotional impact. The ultimate viral Zero is still undead and well, and he wants to use Alicia, now a viral/human hybrid, to hunt down and destroy Amy, the one person who can defeat him.Ĭity of Mirrors recaptures the wonderful blend of action-packed scenes and quiet moments of despair that had made Passage so compelling. Unfortunately, they’re wrong to think the threat is over. Peter, wanting nothing more than a quiet life after years of battling virals, is pulled back into a leadership role by the president, who wants his charisma and respected status in the community to help her rally the survivors into a working, sustainable society. The Twelve have been destroyed, and human survivors are beginning to settle down and rebuild their lives. Here was some of that old magic I remember from my first read of The Passage. I already knew how that turned out, and I was impatient to get on with the story of Peter, Sara, Amy and Alicia.īut then I read The City of Mirrors and my fears were allayed.
I think my main problem with it is that much of it felt very much like the same events of The Passage, only from a different perspective. This fear intensified with the second book, The Twelve, which to be honest, I struggled to finish. It may have been my mood or just the lack of novelty the second time around, but for whatever reason, I was afraid the magic was gone. Whereas I loved it so much at first read that I lugged the almost-1000-page tome around on the subway to and from work, I found the second read interesting but not quite as gripping anymore. I admit I was a bit apprehensive at first, since I re-read The Passage to remind myself of the story, and found it didn’t quite hold up to my memory of the experience. I loved Justin Cronin’s The Passage when I first read it years ago, so I was thrilled to receive a Binge Box from Penguin Random House Canada a few months ago with the rest of the trilogy, including an advance reading copy of the conclusion, The City of Mirrors.
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