Read The City of Mirrors: A Novel (Book Three of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin Online

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. Now enter The City of Mirrors for the final reckoning. 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“Superb 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.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Readers who have been patiently awaiting the conclusion to Cronin’s sweeping postapocalyptic trilogy are richly rewarded with this epic, heart-wrenching novel. Father of the Twelve. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thrilling finale to a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fict

An ambitious, more complex entry that sticks the landing, even though it's a little lumpy at times. Josh Mauthe Justin Cronin’s Passage series has always been fascinating for its refusal to easily be pigeonholed into any one genre. On one level, it’s an apocalyptic horror epic, one in which a tribe of vampiric creatures has wiped out most of the population of the Earth. On another level, it’s a survival story, one in which people are working to rebuild civilization in the face of unimaginable disaster. And on yet another level, it’s a rich character drama, one in which people’s choices and ch. Disappointing. It seems like the author had a three-book deal but only two books' worth of story. None of the previous characters were further developed, and the new characters were just outlines. Stories, like the 20-year rebuilding of the ship, which would have been great books in themselves, were just sketched in. And the less said about the main character, who tells his backstory for much of the book, the better. His reasons for ruining the world make no sense at all and we have to listen to him basically whine for like . The City of Mirrors is a Perfect Ending JoanneG I could probably write a book reviewing this book, but I won't. In short, it's brilliant, beautiful, heart-breaking, and pretty much perfect. It filled in all the questions from the previous two books, while also advancing and completing the story. At the end, we realize the story has come full circle and it is difficult to keep the tears from falling.The one area of the book that seems to be causing the most controversy is the story of Tim Fanning, aka, Zero. I thought the inclusion of this story was interestin

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. The City of Mirrors is a thrilling finale to a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”—Stephen King“Superb This conclusion to bestseller Cronin’s apocalyptic thriller trilogy ends with all of the heartbreak, joy, and unexpected twists of fate that e

Other honors for his writing include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writers’ Award. Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage,The Twelve, Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. . A Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University, he