The Fireman - Joe Hill (2016)
I was browsing in Dymocks in the Melbourne CBD in June 2016 and I spied this book on the new releases shelf (published 2016), read the blurb and thought it sounded good. Here's the brief outline of the story:
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling 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 Fireman.
Boy, was I disappointed. It was an effort to keep reading. I do not often put a book down unfinished but I was tempted in this case. Talk about a great concept but a poor telling. It reminded me of Steven King's "The Cell" but an inferior version. If I read a book but don't like it, it goes on the pile to get put out for the next book fair. Needless to say, this was the fate of this book.
My recommendation - save your money!
I was browsing in Dymocks in the Melbourne CBD in June 2016 and I spied this book on the new releases shelf (published 2016), read the blurb and thought it sounded good. Here's the brief outline of the story:
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling 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 Fireman.
Boy, was I disappointed. It was an effort to keep reading. I do not often put a book down unfinished but I was tempted in this case. Talk about a great concept but a poor telling. It reminded me of Steven King's "The Cell" but an inferior version. If I read a book but don't like it, it goes on the pile to get put out for the next book fair. Needless to say, this was the fate of this book.
My recommendation - save your money!
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