Question about The Passage -- Is it worth finishing?

I'm going to try and keep this as spoiler-free as possible, because I'm only halfway through and would not want to ruin it for anyone else, but--

I've been wanting to ask someone who finished The Passage whether they think it's worth the slog. I'm about halfway in, and I really enjoyed the first third or so-- but once they changed venue, I am just not feeling it at all any more.

In your opinion, if I've not been enjoying the past couple hundred pages, is it worth sticking out for the second half of the book? (i.e., are we stuck in "The Village" for the whole rest of the book??)

I always hate to give up on a book that I've invested several hundred pages in, but I am bored to tears. Did you find the second half of the book worth the slog?

I didn't think it was a slog, but if you do, maybe you'd be better off putting it down.

Well, I did not think the first third of it was a slog-- it was a real pleasure, and fantastically paced. But whoa, did things ever slow down. It's like a whole different book!

I think you're probably right... so, is it fair to say that the remainder of the book takes place in the same society after the big time jump?

pretty much. there's a road trip, and some drama, and more stuff happens, and then there's a sucker punch cliffhanger... this is the first of a trilogy after all!

It has been awhile since I read it, but I do recall the skip in time as being jarring. After I read more of it, I became just as engrossed with the second part of the book as I was with the first part. It just takes a little while to get into. I would give the second part of the book 100 pages or so before giving up on it.

I totally agree, I thought the story got slow to the point of boredom after the time shift. Never once throughout the entire book did I care one bit what happened to any of the post-shift characters, and I wish I hadn't wasted precious reading time bothering to finish it.

Overrated, but still interesting. Depends on your attitude toward allocating reading time. Me, I'm always envisioning my death, decades away I hope, and calculating how many more books I'll read before I die. By that measure, I think you could skip the rest, and go on to something essential.