A good ending. Neither The Twelve nor this one has captured the unnerving electricity of Cronin's first cast, The Passage (part of which was that I had no idea where it was really going at any stage), but they pretty much sustain the story and it never feels like he's cheating. The integrity of the vampires, the human antagonists, and those somewhere in between - that is, the logic of the world set up here - holds throughout, and so does the interest in what will happen next.
