The City of Mirrors concluded one of my favorite book series of all time. While the first book feels wildly different from the first, and it was a long time coming, it still told the conclusion of the story we began so long ago and gave us readers closure and resolution to Amy, The Girl from Nowhere. I still regularly think about Amy and Wolgast. I even game the show a try, but Justin managed to spin a tail that was just too big for television. I would have liked to see the time jump though.

OMG. I wish Cronin could just keep writing about these people. This last book in the trilogy is the absolute best one of the three. The backstory on Fanning is incredible. I loved hearing it. I so wish there could be another book.

Intense and exciting ending to the trilogy. Edge of your seat reading. Lots of twists and turns. Great characters to follow along in this story. Good read.

This is an installment in The Passage series. You need to read the first two books to fully understand this novel.
The story of the spread of a virus worldwide is especially timely.

Thanks so much to the publisher and to NetGalley for giving me access to this book. This book is the third in a series. Cronin does a great job of wrapping up the series. It hits all the right notes for finishing an epic storyline. I will definitely be recommending this book along with the entire series to readers at my library.

This is the final installment in a great series. It was wrapped up nicely and satisfyingly. I was happy with how this book started off picking up where the other left off and it had all the questions that were left answered. I would definitely suggest picking up this series!

So I didn't realize that this was book 3 when I requested it. Took me awhile to get back to this.

Justin Cronin is an amazing sci-fi, dystopian fiction writer. I liked how the end of the world virus made vampires. Not a normal connection, it's usually zombies! Anyone how loves all the above and New York should read this trilogy!

I would not recommend City of Mirrors to be used as part of a classroom curriculum. However, this was a great book to conclude a trilogy. A few of my students had read this as well and loved it. We have it in my classroom library.

Justin Cronin finishes off his epic, The Passage, trilogy with <em>The City of Mirrors</em>.

Time has passed since 'The Twelve' got their butts kicked. Life is good and the sense of real community is growing again. Amy is missing but she is being seen in peoples' dreams. And we get to know Zero.

We really get to know Zero.

Zero, once known as Timothy J. Fanning, was the original viral, the original vampire, who started what became the end of the world, is now 150 years old and he wants people to know his story. And if you're a 150 year old vampire, father to all the other vampires, you get what you want. Which means we have to listen in. And Zero's story, only about a quarter of this book, at nearly 200 pages, is a book in itself.

He gives us a bit of a sob story, but what he really wants is to face off against Amy - Amy, the savior of humanity if she can win the final battle. But where is Amy? Will she actually appear?

And surrounding this novel-within-a-novel, we get a bunch of other stories - a wrap up of humanity.

I thought that the first book in this series was great - filled with excitement and danger, with a ton of questions. It made me eager to read the second book. But that second book really felt rough to me. This one feels just as rough, but in a different way. Here we have the last book in a very long series, which took a number of years to complete, and it feels like too much effort went in to making sure everything was wrapped up nicely ... <em>combined</em> with a backstory that didn't get told in the previous 1300 pages of story.

Maybe it's because the story of these people wasn't very fresh in my head (sorry, but I was not going to go back and reread those first two books) but I kind of didn't care too much through most of the book. There were moments, however (just as with the previous volume), that were really fascinating. The question about Amy - what happened to her, where is she, will she face off against Zero? - kept me going here. But this is a damned long book for just this.

I definitely feel like I jumped on the bandwagon with this book. The first book was really good and it got a lot of good publicity. Many of us were eager - desperate even - to read the follow up. And then we felt committed. We'd spent hours reading a lot of pages. It was just going to be a waste of time if we didn't read to the conclusion, right?

I think I need a t-shirt that reads "I read all of The Passage series"

Looking for a good book? <em>The City of Mirrors</em> by Justin Cronin concludes a series, and if you've read the first two books you might want to finish it off. On the other hand, you could go on and read three other books with a better chance that you'll find satisfaction with one of them.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

The finale to this series was epic. The author is a great writer and weaves a fantastic story with great characters.

Excellent end to the series. It's hard to review just this book alone. So I will say that starting out with The Passage, I could never have predicted where the story would end up.

I waited a really long time for this book to be released, and then life happened so I waited even longer to read it. Maybe that's why I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped? Because I had read the first two books in the trilogy so long ago?

There were parts of the book that I really enjoyed - Zero's back story; most of the ending. And there were parts that I found myself zoning out and I was completely bored.

This is a LONG book and while in some ways it felt like there was way too much information, in other ways I felt like it was rushed.

Am I satisfied with the ending? Mostly. I still have a few questions, but I'm okay with where the story went.

Loved this book so much - excellent ending to the trilogy. There were parts where I was actually creeped out sitting in my house or driving around town!

I don't know if its just been too long since I read the first two books but this one felt like a chore to get through. It jumped around so much that half of the time I had no idea what was going on and seemed much longer than was necessary.
The second half did pick up though and I'm glad I stuck with it to learn the fate of the characters, humanity and the world.

An emotionally satisfying end to this trilogy, which I am still recommending years later. I'm haunted by certain scenes and characters to this day. Definitely worth reading.
(I'll be interested to see how the TV adaptation pans out--so much of this story seems fairly big budget for a weekly show.)

A solid ending to a superb trilogy. I'm looking forward to the TV show based on this trilogy. Justin Cronin can spin a good yarn.

WHY DID I LISTEN TO CITY OF MIRRORS BY JUSTIN CRONIN?
City Of Mirrors by Justin Cronin is the FINAL book in the Passage trilogy. Friends, this must be my year for finishing series and trilogies and the like. I am liking this trend with my reading. It is pretty excellent know how something ends and then that feeling of wrapping things up. I know I kept putting City Of Mirrors off because despite really liking The Passage, I was a little bit meh on The Twelve. Maybe it was some sophomore slump? Anyways I kept avoiding this for different reasons BUT THEN as it turns out, I had no other Netgalley books that are also audiobooks through my library’s overdrive. So, almost thirty days later here we are. I have FINALLY read and listened to this book and now I know what happens.

WHAT’S THE STORY HERE?
City Of Mirrors picks up years after The Twelve ends. It opens up with Alicia Donadio giving birth to a stillborn. She’s grieving, rightfully so. Anyways, then we see that Peter is basically president of Kerrville, Texas where one hundred thousand people are living. People think that the virals are over, right. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Zero is still around. Anyways, there’s murder and mayhem. Amy’s character is kind of in stasis. Then there’s Michael who plans to put people on a ship and bring them to a safe island in the middle of the ocean. We get to learn Zero’s back story – how he used to be Tim and why he went totally around the bend (it has to do with a woman). And well, we get to find out how it was that humanity survived.

WHAT DID I THINK OF CITY OF MIRRORS?
Overall, this is such an action packed book. I was kind of on edge while listening – mainly because I know how horror and dystopian books work. You think you’re safe and settled. BAM! Something bad happens. And my goodness, a LOT of bad things happen in this book. Thankfully, there’s hope too, because otherwise this would be so dreary. Although, okay there’s a few scenes involving infants at the scene of murders and that, as a mother, was really tough to listen to. Oh, and I liked that City Of Mirrors finally goes through Zero’s backstory. I like when a villain is given more depth. And well, I also liked that FINALLY the story is wrapped up.

HOW’S THE NARRATION?
Justin Cronin’s City Of Mirrors is narrated by Scott Brick. Thankfully, I already like Scott Brick’s narration. Otherwise, I am not sure I would have been able to make it through nearly 30 hours of audiobook — even sped up, that’s a lot. The narration goes well with the story. Brick’s voice doesn’t sound jacked up when I speed up the narration (I cannot abide slow narration these days). In all, a good audiobook experience.

I loved the final chapter of the "Passage" trilogy. Such a fitting ending for Amy, Michael, Peter, Alicia and Fanning.

The Fanning chapters of the book were among my favorite. of the entire book.

I hope Cronin decides to write a followup book for the survivors that explore the North America for the first time since the 1,000 year quarantine.

"You followed The Passage. You faced The Twelve. Now enter The City of Mirrors for the final reckoning. As the bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale, Justin Cronin’s band of hardened survivors await the second coming of unspeakable darkness.

The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place?

The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew—and daring to dream of a hopeful future.

But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy—humanity’s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him.

One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate."

Just me, sitting here, waiting for the final book to start the series... yes, it's time to start it!

A very satisfying conclusion to Justin Cronin's epic trilogy! I couldn't put it down and was very content with the way he wrapped up this series, and I really enjoyed the interesting "time jump" in the end. I love his story, his characters and his writing style and this is one of those rare books that I never want to end. I hope we are lucky enough to get another inventive series out of him in the near future!