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Book 11 (of 52) – The Fireman

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.

 

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Book 6 (of 52) – Horns: A Novel

Horns: A Novel - Joe Hill

Horns: A Novel – Joe Hill

While reading other people’s lists of books they’ve read in this elusive challenge, I kept coming across the name Joe Hill, who just so happens to be the middle son of Stephen King.  When Amazon had a special on the Kindle-edition of this, his second novel, for $1.99, I figured what better time to see if the apple had fallen far from the tree.  I must admit that, at first, I wasn’t really feeling it with this book, but eventually I was drawn in and liked it enough to pick up Hill’s first novel when it was available for the low, low price of $1.99.

Horns: A Novel tells the tale of Ig Perrish, who, a year after being blamed for the rape and murder of his girlfriend Merrin Williams, awakes one morning to find a devil’s horns growing out his head and diabolical powers at his command.  He uses those powers to find out who is truly responsible for Merrin’s death and to gain vengeance for it.

Hill’s style, at least the one he used for this book, took a while for me to get in to.  Once I did, though, I ripped through the book, finishing the last half of it in the past 2 days.  I’m looking forward to reading more of his work, with his first novel waiting in my Kindle app and his latest due out next month.