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sherpawhale 's review for:
The Fireman
by Joe Hill
This book, man. This fucking book.
This book touched on one of my particular fears, fear of mob rule, in an astoundingly bombastic fashion. People exploding into flames because of a fungal spore? A few learning to control their fiery superpower? My kind of apocalypse.
This story also managed to touch on the insidiousness of casual misogyny, and the wee bit of kindling you need to fan it into violence.
Finally, I have never read another novel that so thoroughly raises your hopes, crushes them, then are raised again, reborn anew. And the whole cycle repeats every twenty pages. Joe Hill is a master of a leaving tantalizing hints of upcoming chapters thar leave you reading long into the night.
Definite candidate for Best of the Year.
This book touched on one of my particular fears, fear of mob rule, in an astoundingly bombastic fashion. People exploding into flames because of a fungal spore? A few learning to control their fiery superpower? My kind of apocalypse.
This story also managed to touch on the insidiousness of casual misogyny, and the wee bit of kindling you need to fan it into violence.
Finally, I have never read another novel that so thoroughly raises your hopes, crushes them, then are raised again, reborn anew. And the whole cycle repeats every twenty pages. Joe Hill is a master of a leaving tantalizing hints of upcoming chapters thar leave you reading long into the night.
Definite candidate for Best of the Year.