
The Right and Wrong Ways to Use Backstory
SPOILERS FOR THE NOVEL CITY OF MIRRORS BY JUSTIN CRONIN
Recently, the final book in Justin Cronin’s post-apocalyptic horror series, The City of Mirrors, was released. I loved the first two installments, The Passage and The Twelve. For close to four years, I had eagerly anticipated the finale to a great story.
I was mostly pleased with the final book. Very gratifying wrap-up to the series.
About two-thirds of it, that is.
In the middle of the book, Cronin plunks a very long flashback that dramatizes the backstory of the story’s major antagonist, a vampire-like creature who controls an army of other vampire-like creatures. Continue reading “The Right and Wrong Ways to Use Backstory”