The previous two books, though many would categorize them as "genre fiction," didn't read like that to me. The rest of the world is taken care of by a quick and lethal epidemic, leaving a few thousand survivors in Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania, where the final novel of the trilogy begins.Ī funny thing also happens between The Twelve and The City of Mirrors. Through a kind of supersonic telepathy, the science of which is not elucidated, Zero controls a legion of virals across the United States, basically decimating the North American population within a few weeks. Zero, as readers of The Passage and The Twelve will know, is the first and most powerful "viral" unleashed by a secret military experiment-cum-disaster (is there any other kind?). Pale, intelligent, kind and quick-with-a-quip Liz Macomb is the Helen of The City of Mirrors, and for the love of this charming Harvard English major a civilization is destroyed. The reader finds herself in the midst of a nimble late-1980s campus novella – including the requisite love triangle – that rivals anything in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot and evokes Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, complete with the charismatic scion of a moneyed family, an inimitable young woman and a young man from the middle-class who finds himself thrust into a tantalizing new world.Įvery decent supervillain needs his origin story and this is Zero's (a.k.a. A funny thing happens about one hundred pages into the final instalment of Justin Cronin's epic zombie-vampire apocalyptic dystopian thriller.
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