The Last Town on Earth

4-l/2 Stars. My timing in reading this excellent story could not have been better. The townspeople of a small community have posted guards and quarantined their town during the flu of 1918. The on-going war and the ensuing conscientious objectors all provide an exciting and well written novel.......more

Working in a cube farm, I dread the cold & flu season because you’re surrounded by hacking, sneezing, phlegm-filled germ factories who insist on coming to work and spreading their misery because they don’t want to burn their sick days on ‘just a cold’. I’ve often thought that we should set up some k......more

After reading Mullen's second book, "The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers" for review and finding it less than notable I thought I should read Mullen's debut novel which received such favorable reviews. It far surpasses his second effort. The characters are finely drawn, the setting superbly desc......more

This book has a lot going for it - a very dramatic time (the influenza epidemic of 1918), a very dramatic premise (a town that tries to fend off sickness by isolating itself), and - if possible - even more dramatic situations as the story progresses (what happens when two different strangers try to......more