The Fireman – Joe Hill

Back in the year 2013, I first stumbled across the work of Joe Hill.  At the time, I said “I’m looking forward to reading more of his work.”  4 years later, I finally got around to it.  The Fireman, his fourth novel, tells the tale of a post-apocalyptic America, where a spore has infected the population, causing them to burst into flames.  A group of survivors, who have learned how to control and live with the infection, bands together and tries to survive something worse than the spore: humanity itself.

If I had one complaint about The Fireman, it would be that it is loooong.  There’s nothing in particular that screams out as a candidate for being cut out, but the length did make it seem like the book was dragging.  Besides that, I didn’t notice the same quirks that made Horns such a struggle to get through and found it to be an easy and engaging read.  It just kept going and going.

I still have Hill’s other 2 novels waiting on the Kindle app.  I’m pretty sure that it won’t take me another 4 years to get back to them.