The Fireman: A Novel

"3.5 Stars Possible spoilers aheadThe first half of this book starts out fantastic. We see the slow decline of mankind and experience it with the main character, Harper. I can't really think of any disease more terrifying than one that could cause you to spontaneously combust without any sort of warning. I . .5 Stars" according to Sarah. Possible spoilers aheadThe first half of this book starts out fantastic. We see the slow decline of mankind and experience it with the main character, Harper. I can't really think of any disease more terrifying than one that could cause you to spontaneously combust without any sort of warning. I . Masterful (and I don't use that word lightly) I read and review a LOT of books. Very rarely am I lucky enough to read one that figuratively punches me in the gut. I've held off a couple of days from reviewing THE FIREMAN because I wanted to think about the story and the review I was going to do on it.I LOVED THIS BOOK! I was lucky enough to . Joe Terrell said Flashes of Brilliance Amid a Curiously Slow and Predictable Plot. The Fireman squanders a great premise (a spontaneous combustion plague) with some curious pacing issues. The first act is wonderful as author Joe Hill (son of Stephen King) explores society's downfall with some ingenious pop culture references (Glenn Beck AND J.K. Rowling bite the dust in this on

When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: They would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. But Harper isn't as alone as she fears: A mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow firefighter's jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as the Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the huntedand as a weapon to avenge the wronged. From the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Firem