Author: Justin Cronin | Narrator: Scott Brick
Runtime: 36h 49m | Genre: Fiction
A government experiment goes wrong, unleashing a viral apocalypse of vampire-like beings. A century later, a colony of survivors must leave their sanctuary to save the world, guided by a girl who has been alive since it all began.
The first third of this book is a tight government thriller; the rest is a post-apocalyptic odyssey. It feels like two amazing books in one. The leap in time is jarring but brilliant. It creates a deep sense of history and myth. Cronin writes beautiful sentences, even when describing monsters. It is a sad, scary, and sweeping story about family found in the wreckage of the world.