The Twelve

The Twelve is written by Justin Cronin and is the sequel to The Passage . Bewarned This contains spoilers

This book follows not only the events following the outbreak, known in the books as Year Zero, it also follows the events of Amy, Peter, Alicia, and the rest of that gang from the Passgae.


If you have read The passage then you know what happens in the future.  The first part of this book is set in the same time as the passage. It picks up sometime after The Passage ends. Before it starts following the events that happened after everything went to hell in a hand basket.

You first have the book started with Dr. Lila Kyle - who later meets Grey, who she then trust enough to travel with - she was married to Brad Wolgast. But alas a tragic death sort of tears them apart and they part ways. She then gets pregnant and marries the baby's father, David.

Then you have Danny, April, and Tommy, who run into Kittridge who is also know as Last Stand in Denver.  Then as they are heading out they stumble acrossed and save Joe and Linda Robinson, and a young baby they called Boy Jr.; one Mr. Wood who appears to be a security guard, and his girl Delores; then you have the old lady Mrs. Bellamy; then you have Jamal who is about 25; then you have Pastor Don.

The there is the view of Horace Guilder, who was the Deputy Director. Who may not have been with Project Noah from the start, but he was in charge of it when shit hit the fan. 

It switches back in forth for certain parts of the book before staying in the time of Peter and his group. 

Then you have part three, with the Dee Vorhees group.  

Then you get switched to Sara's group (spoiler she is alive!!! :D).  Which is apparently also Guilder's POV as well which is cool but kind of twisted because he should be dead but he isn't so he and some others not necessarily flipped but they can't really die, Lila is apart of this group (and the only one who can control The Many that they are surrounded by). 
Where Sara is, so is Lila, Guilder, and Grey and a few others from the Year Zero.

But as you draw to a close you aren't taken back to Year Zero. You stay with Peter's time line.  So much happens in the final chapters that I kept crying and having to stop so I could calm down before moving on and crying some more. 

There is a lot of death in this book, but in a way there is also hope to be found for humanity in this book as well.  In the end there always seems to be hope. 

Apparently there is supposed to be a third book coming out. I have no Idea when but I can't wait...really hope I don't have to wait to long to get the third book!!!

I give this book a 10/10 because hell it gave me everything I wanted.

Now it took me a week to read The Passage on and off.  Normally I sit down and read a book from cover to cover no breaks except to sleep. But I figured with The Passage and The Twelve it would be a good idea to do this.  It took me roughly four days to read The Twelve. I highly suggest taking your time when reading these books.  Soak up the information so you don't get confused and have to reread parts or go back and reread whole chapters.