Any attempt to summarize, or even characterize, the novels of The Passage trilogy is a grave disservice. The City of MirrorsBy Justin CroninDoubleday Canada624pp; $37With 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 dystopia-glutted times. Readers should approach it as such: if you haven’t read The Passage and The Twelve, you must do so before reading The City of Mirrors. To recap, ridiculously briefly: in The Passage, Cronin follows the testing of a tropical virus that seems to have miraculous healing properties on twelve death-row inmates – disposable test subjects. Cronin’s characters are lavishly drawn and powerfully relatable (despite their occasional actions and, in some cases, their supernatural natures).

Source: National Post May 24, 2016 08:31 UTC