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.