7/7/2023 0 Comments The 12 justin cronin![]() The first of three main three main perspectives into this subject is Lawrence Grey, a sex offender whose molestation of young boys is an outgrowth of his own experience of a sex abuse survivor. Buried in the rest of this brick of a novel are some startlingly beautiful meditations on the motivations for and consequences of sexual assault, and what the accusation that someone has committed violence towards a woman renders it permissible to do to that person. ![]() But in one respect, The Twelve deepens questions raised in its predecessor. Reading it over the weekend, I can see why: the number of characters and timelines makes Game of Thrones look like a Garfield cartoon, the mythology collapses into mystic psychobabble, and the novel eschews moral questions in favor of action sequences. But the sequel, The Twelve, which came out last fall, seemed to garner a quieter reception. ![]() Justin Cronin’s The Passage, a post-apocalyptic vampire thriller with similar oral history elements to World War Z, was one of the phenomena of the summer of 2010, read by many, immediately optioned by Hollywood, and much-discussed as part of the larger vampire trend. ![]()
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