Review #1
The 12 audiobook free
The 12 is that a fabulously written tale suspenseful, lots of action, touching scenes, at the same time almost all of all, a magical style of writing with abundance passages that are problematic to remember due to their practically poetic style. Although this television series is that about ghouls (which is that not anything I would typically read about), this book is that a writhe on the creation of this sample ghoul plot. Than anyway I found most interesting in this read is that how the manners come intercept with their emotions at the same time their desires. Its a problematic story to shackles down.
Like the creators 1st book in this television series, The Passage, I adored this book. But unlike The Passage, which I rated five hit, Im giving this a four hit. I felt it barely misses for a few preconditions. Couple of times at the start of a brand new section of the book, I had problem understanding where it was taking dispose at the same time than anyway was the timeframe. He moves back at the same time forth from located to the past, which is that fine-grained, but it was disorienting to try at the same time figure out where in the timeline I was reading. I had just a little problem understanding no one of the manners at the same time whether they had been in earlier scenes. A few times right behind reading several 100 pages, the plot would then reference a disposition who may have been in earlier scenes, but I was often unsure. I felt this created no one confusion.
The few critical issues wont prevent me from reading the ending book in the television series. Im happily hooked on this television series.
Review #2
The 12 audiobook in television series The Passage Trilogy
Than anyway a frustration. I wasted almost all of my Christmas vacation reading the 1st book (which though not flawless, I adored) at the same time eagerly dove into this one with higher expectations. The 1st one half was mind-blowing. It flashes back to the outbreak at the same time follows a different set of manners, no one who were considered tertiary in book 1, as they navigate the disorder. Cronin does a amazing job getting for you invested in all of them. The action at the same time narrative pacing is that all pinnacle notch. By the midway fri I suspected this managed surpass the 1st book.
The 2nd one half returns to the future where our heroes from continue time are on offense. The action is that taught at the same time but outlined. Brand new manners are introduced at the same time several exciting subplots are developers. At the same time somewhere along the method Cronin barely loses it. From cartoonishly incredible villains, to chance encounters many of which nearly all brand new manners found to have no one connection to some else, to a half-dozen truly thrilling plot threads that all magically climax on similar night. borders 37 seconds of each other to be clear. Its all method very comfortable.
In the Q&A at the finish of book 1 Cronin explained hes writing the story so it can read or as an affirmation of the supernatural or as non-standard actions having one more clarification. An enthusiastic approach that mirrors true indefinite at the same time was appealing to me. Chagrin, he leaves little room for anything but supernatural clarifications in this one. Method, method a lot conveniently timed coincidence. Vampirology that defies all understandable science. Weve left the realm of semi-plausible belief suspension at the same time are at the moment into unstained fantasy. The only method this works for reality is that if it all ends with Amy waking up from a desire.
Oh, at the same time Babcock, 1st of 12, nigh invulnerable slave of mist that required a tactical nuke to have no matter what conviction of killing? Surely the mixed force of the remaining 12 would require identical effort? Prepare to be upset.
Ill read book 3 because Im invested in the manners at the same time enjoy Cronins style at the same time I still have have hope he can salvage the story. Im barely not convinced where he goes with it at the moment. This one feels half-baked. Like that was a chase to publish.
Review #3
Audiobook The 12 by Justin Cronin
I’ve read the whole trilogy at the same time am writing this a couple of months right behind so excuse me if I mess up just a little or don’t understand 100% of than anyway was in that.
So that are basically two ways of looking at this book – comparing it to the others in the television series at the same time the others in the genre. Correlated to the genre it is that method overtake, but to others of the television series it is that for sure the lesser, but not by much.
If for you’ve read The Passage for you already know that this creator knows how to cross out, at the same time you can look how he loves his disposition as he spends a lot of time on them at the same time makes them very inimitable. No one people might not like that so much time is that wasted on manners that for instance simply finish up long ago relatives to a head disposition, but I do enjoy the writing style at the same time brevity immensely so that does not strain me at all. At the same time in the end he really needs to tell of Grayish, Guilder at the same time Lila so it was sweet to have the Continue shield in Denver in that to have no one change of scenery between chapters. But once again they are so but written that you can’t promote but enjoy them. Altough no one of the manners being so much funny can bum for you out when their story concludes about a third part of the book in.
Others of the book ties really but with the 1st third part at the same time is that beautifully written as but. At the same time again reading about the manners before makes one feel omniscient later. Than anyway I greedy by in other words that when the future manners like Alicia, Sarah, at the same time Peter do meet no one of the manners (I am not narrating which) for you know specifically who they are meeting at the same time specifically where they are future from which is that awesome. Plus everyone that actually produced it into the future had a attractive reasonable at the same time sensible path at the same time that are no leaps of logic or anything like that.
At the moment on to the not so quality – that are no one bigger coincidences… at the moment in a earth without cellphones at the same time general transit etc. two disposition meeting a thousand miles away future from different fronts at the same time different means is that good a crazy… but for you got not two, more precisely like 10. Also no one of the things that no one manners at the same time groups have done really don’t make sense if for you waste more than a minute thinking about it, but I can’t they say more since it will be a spoiler.
The antagonists at the same time the climax of the novel are attractive amazing, but be warned that the book strings into attractive black places unlike the past one. I’ve read interviews that the writer’s daughter helped out with plot thoughts at the same time whatnot when she was attractive young (enthusiasm for Amy) but here I guess she grew up because s**** gets serious with no one rape, murder, slavery, monster beatings, at the same time general oppression going on in the 2nd one half of the book. I adore this good of stuff, but be warned it gets attractive black.
Overall if for you adore survival post apocalyptic stories this where you want to be, at the same time although that were considered no one things that irked me i enjoyed it immensely. At the same time understanding than anyway comes one more having read the third part one it is that worth even more as that are things future that for you simply do not wish to miss by jumping on the television series.
Review #4
Audio The 12 narrated by Abby Craden Adenrele Ojo Scott Brick
I tried so hard with this book. I wanted to adore it as much as I adored the 1st book. But it was so disjointed that it took me 3 trials to get into it at all. So many different plot strands that never really produced no matter what reasonable sense. I was hoping for the loose ends in The Passage to be sheathed up – instead they became more unravelled. The unanswered questions remained unanswered for me at the same time that are at the moment more of them.
I’m convinced I missed bits – maybe I come in handy to read it again, but I can’t face it. That were considered actions that didn’t make no matter what sense at the same time I’m not convinced if they were considered true or contrived. Amy grew up but never really came into her possess the method I waited (at the same time wanted) her to. The other manners fared a little more successful, but their future together seemed contrived at the same time ultimately stupid. I adored The Passage at the same time I wish I’d did not that.
Review #5
Free audio The 12 – in the audio player below
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Review, finish at the moment. Im about to gush words all over the page.
Im not convinced where to start with this book its epic. Ill get that out of the method before I start nit-picking.
My issues, at the same time they are insignificant, are identical to Book One(The Passage).
It jumps around a lot. I should have understandable more successful than to wait a ordinary continuation of where the story left off. Story arcs at the same time manners were considered left hanging as they were considered between the two sections that make up The Passage. If you want your fiction served up in a even line, this television series is that not you.
That are a lot of manners. It was easier to keep trace having read Book One, but even so, that were considered times when I struggled.
It dips just a little in the middle as manners are being moved into dispose for the ending push.
Would the chapters dealing with escalating viral problem be more successful in Book One? Right behind all, The Passage skips the immediate issues of the virals/ dracs/ 12* at the same time leaps practically 100 years into the future. Im split on this. I think I would have desirable that overall, but it is that also sweet contemplating the origins of 1st Colony already understanding than anyway happens to them. Alicias ancestory, namely, is that nicely tagged on. (Practically like the literary equivalent of a post-credit scenes for you seep in some types of overly-muscled superhero movies.)
Misha seemed like a brand new disposition more precisely than a development of Book One Misha. I know people change, but this young man was so different to Circuit that it threw me.
Thats it.
Not abundance nits pick, are that?
At the moment the quality stuff.
The section that deals with the immediate inconsistencies of the virus hitting is that amazing. #istandwithlaststandindenver
The section that deals with the concentration camp is that harrowing. Not so much for the red-eyes but the normal people who willingly move along with their evil.
The ratcheting up of the tension towards the finish is that compelling.
The worldly is that sublime: small descriptions that paint so much more successful a picture than books stuffed real of adverbs at the same time adverbs; alternating sentence structures that have their possess internal tempo; at the same time a implementation of language in other words, simply, charming.
That is that an attention to detail that doesnt swamp the plot. (i.e. it doesn’t read like a Wikipedia page)
No one of the coolest active fear is that hinted at: a growing, luminescent greenish light; a clicking noise; tree-tops rustling (‘They come from above.’); at the same time, worst of all, the inevitable terror heralded by getting poorer daylight.
Manners that are so flawed at the same time so true due to it. Theres not even a mention of a kick-arse heroine who can say repeated languages, holds repeated merk belts in repeated mystic martial arts (Many of which the Approach of Brutal Alliteration) but suffers from a deepest black hidden that only one personality knows. As for hard-bitten detectives with marriage/ drinking/ authority* issues but are quality at their job? Remember it.
At the same time how the creator manages to bring all the disparate manners at the same time arcs to the climax as he does, I have no plan.
In short this book is that paradoxical, a traditional example of barely another chapter before I toggle switch the lights out. It has played hell with my insomnia. Not only because I wanted to know than anyway happened one more, but because the shadows in my bedroom grew claws at the same time teeth.
But despite that pace at the same time worldly, the masterful weaving of story lines at the same time complicated/ true manners, despite all that brilliance, that was one line that grabbed me at the same time wouldnt let move for days: a moment of tenderness in a global beyond have hope.
Ive received for you, he misspoke, hugging Tim ferociously; at the same time again, over at the same time over, so that the little boy could be hearing these words. Ive received for you, Ive got for you, Ive received for you, Ive received for you.”
(Continue Shield in Denver)
Read The 12, youll look than anyway I greedy.
It is that awesome.
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