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I FINISHED IT. Why did I finish it? I don't know. This book was unbelievably repetitive. The characters weren't fully-formed. It was repetitive. Passage took about 700 pages to decide what it wanted to be. It needed to be at least 300 pages shorter.

Things Willis should have cut: the heavy foreshadowing about rogue, anything to do with the cafeteria, Mr. Mandrake, Mr. Wojakowski (or at least his endless, repetitive anecdotes), medical acronyms used repeatedly without explanation (we don't need to know every single thing that people say or think), Dr. Wright's magic pockets that produce an insane amount of food... I could go on, but I'm not the editor. And hey, did you know Maisie isn't your average little girl? Did you? DID YOU? Because it will be pounded into your head. She doesn't like The Sound of Music, see! How unusual!

Hey, is the cafeteria closed? Is it hard to navigate the hospital? Will Joanna and Vielle discuss their damn Dish Night about seventeen hundred times? (Hey, watching movies on a regular basis is almost a character trait, right? No?) You will be reminded of those things over and over and over.

Also, many scenes transitioned extremely oddly. For example, a character asks Joanna a question, and Joanna thinks of the answer the next day in another location without any transition whatsoever. In the same paragraph. It was jarring every time.

The basic premise of Passage is interesting. I want to like it. Parts of the book were even decent, but it took about 700 pages to get there.