Nobody knew where the virus came from.
FOX News said it had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s.
MSNBC said sources indicated it might've been created by engineers at Halliburton and stolen by culty Christian types fixated on the Book of Revelation.
CNN reported both sides.
While every TV station debated the cause, the world burnt.
Pregnant school nurse, HARPER GRAYSON, had seen lots of people burn on TV, but the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind the school.
With the epic scope of THE PASSAGE and the emotional impact of THE ROAD, this is one woman's story of survival at the end of the world.
Read by Kate Mulgrew
(p) 2016 HarperCollins Publishers
Damn lackluster endings all to hell! Seriously. This book was long enough that if the pacing was adjusted a bit, it could've been a 5 star book. But that ending ruined any chance of it.
And the pacing took another star with it.
The concept of this book was awesome! The Dragonscale spore was one of the more fascinating plagues I've read about in science fiction. I loved what we got from it, and I wish/hope that Joe Hill makes a companion to this novel just on the spore and survivors. A World War Z of this world if you will.
I think it would lend itself very well to see other survivors all over the world and how they coped with the Dragonscale outbreak. There were great human moments in THE FIREMAN, and I'd love to see more of this world and this spore and this "apocalyptic" setting explored.
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