New This Week: The Twelve by Justin Cronin

Well, finally! In June 2010, I wrote here that I’d just read
The Passage, Justin Cronin’s kick-ass post-apocalyptic vampire thriller, and that he’d delivered an ending so powerful that I hated him for it. After all, we’d have to wait two damn years for more.

Turns out we had to wait two damn years and three months. The nerve!!

Anyway, the wait is over. I’ve read The Twelve (Ballantine), and it’