Why did the man burn to death? Because there’s a worldwide pandemic just starting to erupt. As the story opens, Harper is treating a young boy in the school nurse’s office when she sees a man burn to death out in the yard. She entertains school children with her no-nonsense cheeriness, while helping the medicine go down with a spoonful of sugar. Main character Harper Willowes is a nurse, of the best spit-spot Mary Poppins ilk. What it is, exactly, is a bit harder to put my finger on, but if I had to come up with a description, I’d say that The Fireman is a post-apocalyptic love story, with crazed dystopian power struggles and hypnotic religious leaders and dangerous cults. I associate Joe Hill with scary-ass horror, but surprisingly, I wouldn’t call The Fireman a horror story at all. No big surprise: This is Joe Hill’s 4th novel, and it’s the 4th Joe Hill novel that I’ve loved. So yes, I guess you’ve figured out up front that this is a rave review. I raced through it, and now I’m mad that I’m done, because I want to spend more time in the story! For a 700+ page book, it sure goes down like candy.
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