![]() ![]() ![]() "The Twelve," the much-anticipated second book of Cronin's trilogy, does not take up where the previous book left off - 92 years after the plague began, with a straggling group of survivors embarking on a quest to kill the original 12 virals - though it does get back there eventually. His vision of a vampire-plagued America was sweeping in scope, intelligently written and devastatingly haunting. They brought about the end of civilization, leaving the remaining humans to scrabble about in a postapocalyptic agrarian landscape, battling the undead with crossbows and gumption. In his novel, the vampires didn't merely nibble on a human or two, looking sexy without their shirts on his man-made "virals" were a new vampire breed - crossing the creepy exoskeleton and superhuman power of the beasts from "Aliens" with the dining habits of Dracula. When Justin Cronin published "The Passage" in 2010, it felt as if he were raising the bar on the current trend for all things vampire. ![]()
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