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The Deading by Nicholas Belardes
DID NOT FINISH: 47%

Made it 47% percent through and just couldn’t keep going. The premise is so good and the early chapters were so strong, but this has ground to an absolute halt. I love birds and even I have gotten sick of the lists upon lists of birds. I also think this book suffers from an audiobook format. The performances are fine, but hearing “dead” and “deading” used as verbs is so much more annoying when you have to actually hear it. 

Every scene with a snail was transcendent and that bought a lot of goodwill in this book for me from the first few chapters. But I’m so disappointed with how the plot has essentially stopped and even in the midst of a reality-shifting, government quarantined, symbiotic death plague, I’m just so incredibly bored. Gotta get over the early promising bits and sunk coat fallacy and put this one down.