May be better as a read book; plot got a bit unwieldy and it seemed like it needed more editing; interesting ideas but characters seemed 2-dimensional.

I like the characters and the story line. I don't mind the religious overtone to a point but if your not a christian and don't want a lecture sermon you might want to pass on the book.

Too darn LONG.

Maybe

Good naration

Prepare for a long ride.

Most of the book went pretty fast, some parts just dragged on and on and on and all the skipping around got a little confusing at times. I had to go back and listen again...all in all it was worth the credit, but, if I had the printed version I probably would not have finished it, at least not for a long time.

A story line that I could follow or understand.

ABSOLUTLY

Yes. I have listened to others that he narrated. The content was not able to be appreciated even in his voice.

I tried....I really did. I do like long drawn out books that are good reads, but this one was not to me a good read.

This book takes a special type of reader. I read all of the great comments about this series and thought it was something I needed to get in on. I love long books that I can listen to while I work. I dont know what I was expecting but I feel like he introduces characters and then they go away then in come new characters. I just can not follow the book. I am into the 5th hr and I just dont get it. I dont see the point or the hero or whatever I am so lost and dissapointed with this book. I even thought maybe its me and came back to this book and started over after listening to a different book but I just dont get it. I dont want to spoil the story or what I dont understand about the story because I hate reading spoilers in reviews but..... the 1 thing I do understand about this book is where the creatures originated from. But the point of the story after that is tedious and so lost in the details that I can not find it in myself to listen until the end (where i am sure it is all brought together).

There is literally a boat load of characters. The time jumps would not have been a problem but each leap introduced someone new making the characters vague. I felt disconnected from the characters because of the mélange of storylines.

I really enjoyed the Passage, but The Twelve just doesn't stack up. The characters that were developed in the first book seemed thin and generally not as interesting as in the first book. I just didn't care about them in this book.
Scott Brick's narrative style of making most sentences full of breathy emotion was particularly annoying in this rendition.
The plot is not tightly written and so highly fragmented between characters, flashbacks, switches of venue, that it's hard to feel attached to the characters from scene to scene.
If there was a third installment I wouldn't read it. But I recommend the Passage which is original, much tighter and with much better character development.

Peter

Amy, she has s much wisdom to impart.

This was a lot harder to follow the The Passage was but it is still a very well written and I throughly enjiyed it.

From the first word to the very last, I was hooked. One of those books that you better save for when you can afford to be a little irresponsible, because it was hard to stop listening. I loved The Passage, but thought this one was even better. I found every character fascinating and was devastated when any of them, even the bad guys, made 'an exit' -- as, alas, characters are wont to do in apocalyptic novels.

Bravo, Mr. Cronin. Flawless!

And bravo, Mr. Brick, for an excellent read that never slipped.

Yes, there were some connections that were a bit too convenient but, in a way, that was one of the interesting things. And isn't that one of the themes anyway? That it's not just The Twelve who are irrevocably tied -- but that all of humanity somehow is as well?

The only problem is that the third in the series doesn't come out till 2014.

I have just one thing to say to Mr. Cronin about that: "Write for me, write for me, write for me..."

I tend to side with audio editions of most books because I do not have time to read like I used too.

I liked the building up to the big fight scene. I thought about turning off my book because of the way it goes back and forth and then it picks up speed and becomes exciting.

I had to listen to the end of book 1{ The Passage } so I could remember how it ended, it had been a few years. I couldn't wait to go to work everyday so I could listen to this one! Well worth the credit!