In The Passage and The Twelve, Justin Cronin brilliantly imagined the fall of civilization and humanity’s desperate fight to survive. Now all is quiet on the horizon – but does silence promise the nightmare’s end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness? At last this best-selling epic races to its breathtaking finale.
The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place?
The Twelve have been destroyed, and the 100-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew – and daring to dream of a hopeful future.
But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy – humanity’s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him.
One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate.
It was slow starting but the writing is wonderful and by the end I loved it Fans of this trilogy have waited a long long time for the ending and it is finally here. You absolutely should not read this book without having first read and . If you have time, I strongly recommend re-reading (or listening to the audiobooks) the first two…
One major flaw, several minor anomalies Although the conclusion to this vast, literary horror trilogy is ultimately satisfying, I couldn’t overlook a major flaw and a few lesser anomalies. I won’t mention the anomalies; if the reader misses them, there’s no need to bring them up. But no one can miss the elephant in the room – in this case, it’s a short novel within the larger one. It’s the tale of Fanning, aka Zero, the villain of all villains, whose deadly presence filled the first two novels with dread. The author skillfully moved…
Brilliant and beautiful — the perfect ending to a gripping trilogy Justin Cronin’s THE CITY OF MIRRORS sets out to do the seemingly impossible – wrap up scores of characters and an immense landscape of action in a way that will satisfy readers who have waited four years for the publication of this book. Well, I guess Cronin can do the impossible! Because CITY is a brilliant novel, powerful in its message and extraordinarily satisfying in its concluding pages. Spanning almost a thousand years, the story manages to keep the reader intimately…