In “City of Mirrors,” she appears in two forms: in Peter’s dreams as a companion and lover, sharing a home in the country with a piano she likes to play (perhaps it is the same farmstead where Theo and Maus were left behind in “The Passage”) and then in reality as a prisoner contained in a ship, where she’s kept alive by Greer, and where she shares her captivity with Carter. She’s the girl who could talk to animals, the girl who could fight The Twelve, the girl who fell in love with Peter Jaxon - a young hero of the First Colony. The trilogy has always been about Amy, even when she isn’t on the page. OK?įour years is long enough for me to have forgotten some of the loose ends and even characters of “The Twelve.” But reunions - often one of the most powerful plot devices in fiction - can be pretty powerful in real life, too, so I was excited to be taken back into Justin Cronin’s world of vampires, or virals, as the characters call them, especially to be back with Amy. It’s been six long years since “The Twelve” (which came out only two years after “The Passage”), so don’t let this review spoil your own anticipation. Seriously, don’t read this if you don’t want spoilers.
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