I totally get the people who think it was boring, but for me, the tension was so high that I raced through this book. I actually think Willis was really effective at creating the feeling of unending labor that would be life during an epidemic: the monotony of small, unglamorous tasks; then the terror of death; then repetition of it all. And I liked all of the characters and the style enough to care about them through it all. It's gutting, though. Definitely gutting. To me, definitely worth the ride.

But if you've read a ways into it and you find yourself bored, put the book down. It's not for you.