This book raises lots of issues and kept the book club discussion raging all night.

I can't wait for our book club discussion! There are SO many topics stemming out of this book and I LOVE that the tone of the book presents them without pushing an agenda. It is written simply as a description of how differently people dealt with the troubled world around them.

Tolerable read, it kept me going but I wanted so much more to happen. A great plot but it never seemed to take off for me - the story dragged and I never really felt like I knew the characters. Just O.K.

An excellent book for discussion, there are many morale questions that the characters must face. Our book group found the characters believable and the book though not hapy book one that should be read by many readers.

This book was slow to get into, but once I did it was a bit suspenseful, informative and disturbing (how is a pandemic not disturbing).
Gives one quite a bit to think about in regards to a pandemic (it is a real possibility) and modern day medicine, societal behavior and moral codes of conduct.

This rather depressing story makes for good discussion on morals and ethics. One club member commented, " The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Good people trying to do the right thing, but everything goes awry. We learned much about the feelings of the citizens of the USA during WWI and about the flu epidemic of 1918. We were able to tie this book to others about other books about quarantines, such as The Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks and The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman.