Ain’t nobody got time for vampire fiction masquerading as high-octane thrillers hidden behind too many characters and subplots.
I must have added The Passage to my to-read list back when it came out and received vaguely positive reviews from some quarters. To be sure, I can see why some people would like this. Justin Cronin writes with that pseudo-noir style that works well for certain types of thrillers: everyone in his books seems like a…