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Yeah, the review title doesnt make any sense at all. Neither does this book. Something is missing, but by the end, you dont even care anymore. The first few hundred pages were really interesting, great story, good characters, but then poof-everybody is dead, for no real reason. Made you wonder why we spent so much time learning about them!?! The next 600 pages seems to be, i dont know, practice for a real book? It's lousy. A whole lot of odd, unexplained characters appear, get killed, rinse, repeat. You do actually learn quite a bit about a few of the characters (the Auntie, for example), who turn out to have nothing to do with anything at all. Again, you are left wondering why you were told so much about them. The main characters, well, you learn almost nothing about them at all! I found myself reading every other paragraph of the last 100 pages-you don's miss anything. The plot goes nowhere, the characters do nothing. The "passage" the book was named after? Yeah, it's nothing. Just a hallway or something, some lady nukes a vampire in it, it's never really explained. Yeah, nuclear weapons. It's not even explained with this super vampire thing is even after her, since the previous 700 pages, he was going after someone else. Again, who cares at this point. Seemingly important events go completely, frustratingly unexplained, but there might be five pages on what a room looks like. The girl is never epxlained. She has some sort of super powers, but no personality is ever divulged to explain her almost never using them, usually reverting to watching people get killed, then saying something cryptic afterwards that is never explained. Too many cheap literary stunts, too. Oooooh! You thought he was dead...he's not!! Dun Dun Dun! Whatever. You wont care. It's not surprising the tenth time it's happened. Almost every character in the book could live or die, and not affect the story at all. It's that bad. And all the short, pointed sentences that end the chapters get old, too. "And then, he saw it." Or, "that's when blanky blanky happened." Blah blah blah. The book is full of unlikely stupid things, too. The Colony characters are dumb, I mean really dumb. Apparently not a single person remembers anything of life before. They refer to their crossbows as "cross's" (vampires-crosses, get it?!? HAHAHAH zing ehhhhhh), "blades", they say stupid things for expressions like "oh, flyers!". It's like Swiss Family Robinson meets Blade Trinity. Sometimes the "virals" are insane lunatic killing machines, and sometimes, total pussies. It's never explained. By now you have probably realized the bulk of my review could have been summed up in one or two paragraphs, but I managed to stretch it into six paragraphs, for no reason besides the fact that i like to type. I think Cronin took the same approach to writing this lousy book. Booooooooo. And then, I wrote one more paragraph. ProTip: Normal guns do not have "clips", Cronin. It's magazines. Machine guns have clips. Rifles and pistols have magazines. It is so, so, annoying to have an author write a book that has hundreds of pages dedicated to getting, using, and discussing guns, butcher the most basic of terminologies, proving the other knows almost nothing about guns at all. In the shoot out scenes, what little bit of drama you managed to squeeze out is ruined by something mundane like "and then her empty clip fell to the floor..." Really? You mean her "magazine"?? Come on. That's a sophomoric mistake. Guess you just wanted to twist the knife, I mean "blade", so to speak.