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My Spanish language edition

I implore you, pick my Spanish cover! I am so thrilled to have sold the Spanish language rights for LONG LIVE EVIL in a pre-empt to Umbriel Editores/Urano,  who publish Jay Kristoff, Shelley Parker-Chan, Naomi Novik, Holly Black, Olivie Blake, CS Pacat, SA Chakraborty, VE Schwab, Zoraida Cordova, Justin Cronin… too many favourites to name. But before we villains can party in Spain, we love both my English language and my Dutch cover. Which would you like to see for my Spanish edition? 

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books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 101

The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

“She did not recall the words, only the idea: that loss was love’s accounting, its unit of measure, as a foot was made of inches, a yard was made of feet.”

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Book Review: The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

A unique, suspenseful, and thought-provoking dystopian adventure where nothing is what it seems!

The Ferryman is a cross between The Truman Show, 1984, The Matrix, and Inception, and it's a testament to Cronin's skill that he's able to blur the line between illusion and reality so intricately, so convincingly, and in such a diametric fashion, that you never see the turns of the plot until they're upon you. Until they twist you sideways, demolishing everything you thought you knew about Prospera and its inhabitants.

Proctor Bennet is an everyman protagonist in the sense that he's relatable. He thinks. He dreams. He questions. He becomes the lens from which readers not only see and experience Prospera, but also from where they begin to question society's true purpose. It's underlying function.

Like the eye of a storm, the plot hinges on Proctor, on his realizations and discoveries. And because of that, readers are swallowed up in everything he goes through, leaving them feeling it, too. It makes for a jolting yet exciting, vicarious tailspin of a novel that sinks your imagination in to the helm.

Definitely one you don't want to miss!

Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for the ARC in exchange for my review.

4/5 stars

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[averagemrfox]

The apocalyptic event that happened being called “the horrors” is hilarious to me as a tumblr user

Proctor Bennett is living in a dystopian society and is being so so brave about it

#the ferryman #justin cronin

[inabooknook]

The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

What an interesting premise. The story follows Proctor Bennett, the Ferryman in Prospera. Prospera appears to be, on its face, a utopian or possibly dystopian future where people don't have children, but they are brought in as a "ward". This story was so engaging and different in ways that were very similar to some of Cronin's other work, but in ways that were fun and exciting to behold in this book. I would highly recommend this if you enjoy post-apocalyptic books, or if you have recently read and and enjoyed "How High We Go In the Dark" which I so interestingly had done. This is a more engaging and dystopian version, with interesting fascist themes!

This ebook was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon - son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of Terrence Jaxon, signatory of the One Law; great-great-nephew of the one known as Auntie, Last of the First; Peter of Souls, the Man of Days and the One Who Stood - took his position on the catwalk above Main Gate, waiting to kill his brother.

Justin Cronin - The Passage

If you love pre and post-apocalyptic stories that span 1000 years, viral vampires, exceedingly well-written and fully formed characters, writing so lyrical and rich it makes you weep, and a little girl who saves the world, I highly recommend Justin Cronin’s The Passage trilogy. The titles are The Passage, The Twelve, and The City of Mirrors. I think the only books I’ve read more often than this trilogy are Stephen King’s The Stand and the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin. 

I’m not being hyperbolic when I tell you this trilogy changed my life. It really is that impactful. Go forth and read and then come back and tell me I’m wrong.

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[mundane-frogola]

In the sealed cabin of the Denali, he could smell her tears, like melting wax, and the clean smell of her hair.

Quoted by Anthony Carter, in The Passage by Justin Cronin.

What?

How? How are you able to smell her tears??

I think the smell of her tears being a pungent as scented wax is something you go to the doctor.

But this is in America sooo I guess she'd rather live with her 'sweet plum sake' tears, or perhaps they smell like 'A Quiet & Calm Place'.

Those are both Yankee Candle scents.

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The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

Published: May 2, 2023 Ballantine Books Genre: Dystopian Science Fiction Pages: 530 KKECReads Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I received a copy of this book for free, and I leave my review voluntarily. Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest.…

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[libertyreads]

I’m currently reading The Passage by Justin Cronin and just...wow is it a slog. It’s so freaking dense that my reading speed is basically cut in half (though, to be fair, part of that could be the migraine I’m on day two of). I got to the end of Part 1 today and I have thoughts. Like, why give such extensive backstories to two characters only for them to die at the 27% mark?

#it's part of my 40 books before 40 project so I'm going to finish it #but it is such a slog #it took me two days to get 29% of the way through #so this is going to easily be a 7 or 8 day read for me #The Passage #Justin Cronin

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The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin [A Review]

New Review: The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

The survivors of the epic events and dark world of The Twelve believe they are now safe. The few that saved them – Peter, Michael, Alicia, Amy and others – have been through more than most have in a lifetime. But each in their own way know their greatest challenge awaits. The conclusion to The Passage Trilogy has a lot to live up to. Note – since The City of Mirrors is the third part of The…

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What a beautiful book! This is a copy of The Ferryman by Justin Cronin that I bought my mum for her birthday. Borrowed so I can read it, see you in 538 pages!

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[rhetoricandlogic]

Justin Cronin’s ‘The Ferryman’ carries readers from mystery to mayhem

The author of ‘The Passage’ has written another apocalyptic novel, this one about a utopia gone very wrong6

Review by Ron Charles

April 25, 2023 at 4:43 p.m. EDT

“This is the way the world ends,” T.S. Eliot predicted, “not with a bang but a whimper.”

Nope, says epic world-ender Justin Cronin.

In 2010, Cronin published “The Passage,” one of the most frightening apocalyptic novels of the modern age. If there was any whimpering in that bang-up job, it was the smothered chorus of millions of people being eaten by vampires.

Now, Cronin is looming over us again with another apocalyptic novel, this one more batty than vampiric. “The Ferryman” grabs bits of stardust from several sci-fi classics. The trippy effect is like watching “Inception” on an airplane while the passenger next to you watches “The Matrix” without earphones. Indeed, to get through this chaotic story, you’ll need the red pill and the blue pill and some Adderall.

The eerie first half — by far the better — is set on Prospera, an island paradise hidden from the rest of the world by an impenetrable electromagnetic barrier. “Prosperans,” as the glorious inhabitants are called, enjoy a civilization “free of all want and distraction.” They devote their attractive selves entirely to “creative expression and the pursuit of personal excellence.”

Like good Republicans, Prosperans imagine that everything about their system of static privilege is “entirely beneficent.” But members of the vast “support staff” harbor a somewhat different impression. Crammed onto a dreary adjacent island known as the Annex, these men and women of supposedly “lesser biological and social endowments” are expected to perform their various duties without complaint. And mostly, they do. If a few stress fractures are starting to zigzag across the surface of that social arrangement, the powers that be remain convinced they can keep control.

Control turns out to be the primary principle of this society, as it is in so many utopias. Beneath their shiny skins, Prosperans are biologically sterile but technically immortal. They maintain their vitality through a repeated process of bodily “reiteration.” They all arrive — or re-arrive — as polite 16-year-olds and begin living lives of “the highest aspirations,” which is how you can tell this is a fantasy.

Each one of them has something like a super-duper Apple Watch embedded in their forearm that constantly monitors physical and emotional health. When their natural faculties begin to fade — but before the deprivations and humiliations of age cut too deeply — they’re ferried to Nursery Isle, where they’re reiterated in some new identity, like a recycled Pepsi can. Most Prosperans willingly sail off to the Nursery, eager “to be reborn as a fresh-faced bright-eyed teenager in perfect health.” But sometimes, alas, a reluctant or confused old fogey must be persuaded. Think “Logan’s Run” with a touch of “Throw Momma From the Train.”

Although Cronin made his reputation by destroying the world, he’s actually better at building it, with all its attendant faults. Our narrator, Proctor Bennett, is one of the highly respected ferrymen who lead expiring Prosperans to the dock and launch them over to Nursery Isle for a refresh. The hypnotic horror of this exposition arises from how reasonable and gracious Proctor sounds, how much pride he takes in ritualized euthanasia. “We were,” he tells us, “the shepherds of emotional order in one of life’s most challenging moments.”

But the placid tone of Proctor’s life is shattered early in the novel. Soon after he explains to us the exquisite order of life on Prospera, he receives an unusual assignment: He’s to escort his own 126-year-old father to the ferry for reiteration. “You’ll make new memories,” Proctor tells his old man, falling back on the usual script. “Think how wonderful it’s going to feel to be young again, your whole life ahead of you.”

His father seems resigned to the process, to his duty, and everything is going fine until suddenly it isn’t. In a flash of resistance, the old man must be violently restrained. His dignity evaporates. It’s a scandal. Witnesses are unnerved, disgusted by the public violation of such a foundational taboo.

But Proctor is even more deeply shaken by this experience. Nightmares — typically not possible for Prosperans — continually trouble his sleep. Worse still, Proctor feels that something about his surroundings has gone fundamentally askew. Friends are sympathetic. Colleagues are concerned. High-ranking officials are alarmed about what Proctor’s father might have told him in those frantic moments before he was ferried off to the Nursery. And rebel agents from the Annex believe they may have found in Proctor someone to help their cause.

All the elements are here for a spectacular sci-fi thriller full of piercing implications for our own class-bound society, with its paralyzing fear of aging. But Cronin has something far more ambitious and metaphysical in mind, which throws “The Ferryman” off its tracks.

Just as the class-warfare plot starts to rumble, the ground shifts wildly beneath Proctor’s feet — and ours. “Then I was falling,” he says. “Falling and falling and falling. Down and down and down,” carrying my hopes for this long novel along with him. The creepy utopia Proctor depended on vanishes, and he finds himself in a hallucinatory realm of baffling experiences.

This is clearly meant to be a stunning development, ripe with provocative reflections on the nature of consciousness and the creative power of perception. But unfortunately, those deeper issues dissolve in a vat of melodrama: chases, shootouts and fires along with clones, billionaires and maniacal villains spouting cartoonish dialogue. And all of this is somehow glommed on to the lachrymose story of a grieving parent and a dying world. If nothing else, Cronin has out-cuckooed Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land.”

“The Ferryman” wants to explore what’s real and what’s illusion, and I’m as eager as the next Platonist to be enlightened by the true nature of reality, but this late in the philosophical game, authors have got to bring something special to the cave wall. Unfortunately, Cronin’s topsy-turvy thriller is torn apart by the unsustainable imbalance between its profound intentions and its ultimately silly execution.

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Il traghettatore | Justin Cronin

Fondato dal misterioso genio noto come il Designer, l’arcipelago di Prospera è nascosto dagli orrori di un mondo esterno ormai in declino. Su quest’isola paradisiaca, i fortunati cittadini godono di vite lunghe e appaganti fino a quando i monitor incastonati nei loro avambracci, destinati a misurare il loro benessere fisico e psicologico, scendono sotto il 10%. A quel punto si ritirano,…

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Audiobooks Recommendations - February 2024

It been a year since my last Audiobooks recommendations. This list maybe a little short this year, because I did not travel across country. When people ask what I like to listen to while driving, well audiobooks of course. Mainly LitRPG books because they are entertaining enough to keep me awake on my long drives. Vaudevillian Series by Alex Wolf – Was one of the best I listened to this…

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[2023|98] The Ferryman (2023) written by Justin Cronin

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Oh yeah I got some new books:

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