shereadstales 's review for:

The Deading by Nicholas Belardes

3.0

dark tense medium-paced

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Thanks to NetGalley and Recorded Books for the ALC of this audiobook! 

In a small fishing town, snails wash up on shore and start infecting and transforming everything. At first, it’s just wildlife, but soon even the humans are affected. Once infected, people collapse and die, only to come back to life, changed in many ways. When the town is quarantined and cut off from the world, birding enthuiast Blas and his brother Chango, among other survivors must find a way out, or become subjected to weird, cult rituals. 

This book. Is so weird. I 80% chose it on the title. I enjoy adding “ening” on the end of things (ex. The Bloodening or in this case the deadening), but then the synopsis got me even more. I will say it took me a bit to get into the book. It shifts povs between seemingly random people in the beginning, but once I got the characters straight and got into the plot, it was pretty enjoyable.