I pushed past my usual 50 page mark in this book because I hoped that it would get better. The premise of the book was intriguing, but there were too many irritating things about this book for me to actually finish it. It annoyed me that, at the first signs of illness and after one death, the narrator immediately diagnosed an epidemic. Really? People die every day and people get sick every day -- it doesn't necessarily equate an epidemic. Then again, I didn't live in Toronto during the SARS epidemic, so I can't say for sure that this book doesn't accurately mirror the uncertainty and fear that can go along with that type of situation. That being said, the writing just didn't lure me into the story, and I gave up about halfway through.
