I also bought the book,and will be watching to see what yo think of it . It didn't sound like the normal type book I read ,but I'm always a sucker for a book if it says it has won any type award, bestseller list, etc .
I picked this up knowing nothing about it. If I'd have known there were vampires involved I probably wouldn't have bothered. Oh no not another vampire book! But this is great - reminds me of The Stand by Stephen King. 300 pages in and going great guns now!
I read The Passage a year ago, and while details have faded, and I'll need a reread before the sequel comes out next year, I can safely say I throughly enjoyed it! And, I'm not a fan, usually, of vampire novels.