The City of Mirrors
A Novel (Book Three of The Passage Trilogy)
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
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Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thrilling finale to a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”—Stephen King
You followed The Passage. You faced The Twelve. Now enter The City of Mirrors for the final reckoning. As the bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale, Justin Cronin’s band of hardened survivors await the second coming of unspeakable darkness.
The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place?
The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-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.
Look for the entire Passage trilogy:
THE PASSAGE | THE TWELVE | THE CITY OF MIRRORS
Praise for The City of Mirrors
“Compulsively readable.”—The New York Times Book Review
“The City of Mirrors is poetry. Thrilling in every way it has to be, but poetry just the same . . . The writing is sumptuous, the language lovely, even when the action itself is dark and violent.”—The Huffington Post
“This really is the big event you’ve been waiting for . . . A true last stand that builds and comes with a bloody, roaring payoff you won’t see coming, then builds again to the big face off you’ve been waiting for.”—NPR
“A masterpiece . . . with The City of Mirrors, the third volume in The Passage trilogy, Justin Cronin puts paid to what may well be the finest post-apocalyptic epic in our dystopian-glutted times. A stunning achievement by virtually every measure.”—The National Post
“Justin Cronin’s Passage trilogy is remarkable for the unremitting drive of its narrative, for the breathtaking sweep of its imagined future, and for the clear lucidity of its language.”—Stephen King
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The first two books in Justin Cronin’s thrilling dystopian vampire trilogy—The Passage and The Twelve—earned him a rapturous following. The City of Mirrors offers fans a supremely rewarding conclusion. Cronin plunges us deep into the backstories of his vivid and complex characters and hurtles the action into the future to explain how a post-“viral” world could look. As ever, his storytelling is brilliantly tense and agonizingly hopeful, and his battle scenes defiantly horrific.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This conclusion to bestseller Cronin's apocalyptic thriller trilogy ends with all of the heartbreak, joy, and unexpected twists of fate that events in The Passage and The Twelve foreordained. It's nearly a century after the release of the Easter Virus that decimated humanity and several years since the last of the infected people known as virals were seen. The citizens of Kerrville, Tex., one of the last human enclaves, are just beginning to feel confident enough to settle outside the borders of their protected community. But when pets, and then people, begin disappearing mysteriously, it becomes horrifyingly evident that virals are on the rampage again and that this time there may be no stopping them. As in the two previous novels, Cronin skillfully manages a large cast of characters, all of whom he has endowed with fully developed personalities that engage the reader emotionally. Although its plot is understandably heavily dependent on events in the first two books, this novel is a superb capstone to a modern horror thriller epic. 15-city author tour.
Customer Reviews
Excellent!!
Absolutely loved this trilogy! Fantastic writing that kept me intrigued! Love the ending and the way the author ties all the characters together! Well done
Long and Boring
Didnt connect with any characters. Story was too long, boring, and useless
Great trilogy… in ferocious need of more editing
Spoilers:
This book sees the character development of Zero, the world’s most angst-ridden edge lord vampire king of zombies. He had a very long backstory filled with meanderings and intense feelings, fell in love with a Harvard educated magic pixie dream girl, got his heart broken after being left on a train platform a la Humphrey Bogart, and then became a zombie vampire that killed the world because he was feeling moody. That on top of other stories of other people over thousands of years had me speed reading like a bullet train by the last third, just trying to get the whole bloody thing over with. Love the series, but for the love of god, next time learn to edit.