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Books Read in 2016 (778) » 10 more Books Read in 2020 (3,534) KayStJ's to-read list (1,143) Must-Read Maine (69) ALA The Reading List (76) Fiction on Fire (6) No current Talk conversations about this book. This isn't perfect: it's longer than it should have been, the main villain is weak and there are a couple of truly terribly puns that would have been better suited to a mid 80s Schwarzenegger movie; but the key characters are a delight, the concept is strong and well executed and I couldn't stop reading it. It may have suffered a bit for me as I read it immediately after Stephen King's 'Under the Dome' which is similar but, IMHO, superior. Well worth a read through and the ending in particular is great. ( ![]() 2 stars is being generous. I feel really let down by other reviewers on goodreads... someone brought up this author favorably in a review of another author's work that I enjoyed- someone who can't tell the difference between good writing and pulp fiction. I feel that with all the data on us that goodreads collects, they should be able to turn me on to decent books. But the"recommended for you" search algorithms are poor and give too few results, other reviewers are unreliable, there are too few ways to search for books, etc etc etc. This place is a wealth of knowledge with no way to sort through it. There should be a way to find out ahead of time if a book is written for a high school reading level (like this one) or for actual literate adults. That would be a start. The book is disappointing and Kate Mulgrew didn't help. Disappointing That was REALLY good. no reviews | add a review
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A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it is Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe. Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she's discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob's dismay, Harper wants to live at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too... if she can live long enough to deliver the child. Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads -- armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isn't as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighter's jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted ... and as a weapon to avenge the wronged. In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Fireman's secrets before her life and that of her unborn child goes up in smoke. No library descriptions found. |
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