The Deading, Nicholas Belardes
The Deading, Nicholas Belardes
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The Deading

Author: Nicholas Belardes

Narrator: June Angela, Robb Moreira, Luis Moreno

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/23/2024

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Nature, Dystopian


Synopsis

Unnatural horrors and a town in peril: Stephen King’s Under the Dome meets
The Last of Us in this harrowing climate fiction novel.
When a hidden evil emerges from the depths of the ocean, the tight-knit town of
Baywood is caught in a climate disaster of mysterious origins: an unusual wave of
sea snails enter the estuary and transform wildlife, seascapes, and finally, people.
Once infected, residents start “deading”: collapsing and dying, only to resurrect,
changed in ways both physical and fundamental. After the government isolates
Baywood, paranoia and surveillance run rampant. A newly formed cult called the
Risers starts targeting those who are not deading: the introverted bird-loving Blas,
his jaded older brother, Chango, the widow Kumi, and her cautious neighbor,
Ingram. The survivors of Baywood eventually must choose to escape, to
investigate the deading’s origins, or to become subsumed by this terrifying new
normal.
At points claustrophobic and haunting, soulful and melancholic, The Deading
lyrically explores the disintegration of society, the horror of survival and
adaptation, and the unexpected solace found through connections in nature and
between humans.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stitching on September 04, 2024

Some segments had delightful prose, but it was really limited to some POVs/scenes and not something that carried through the whole book. If it had been just about the eco/sci-fi horror and/or the birding aspect it could have been an easy 5 stars for me but the deading/community descent into cultism/......more

Goodreads review by BlaireReadsTheThings on May 02, 2024

Thank you to Goodreads and the publisher for the ARC giveaway for this title. Imagine it. Coastal town. Birds chirping. The smells of salt and sea. The breeze and the sun. Seems like a dream come true. Except that something is amiss. Something sinister and unknown is lurking in Baywood. And everyone'......more

Goodreads review by Denise on July 25, 2024

When a small fishing town called Baywood is assailed by an inexplicable infection originating from a being within the ocean that causes people and animals to experience “deading,”: the act of abruptly dying and then returning to life mentally and physically changed, a bird-loving teenager named Blas......more

Goodreads review by Scott on November 04, 2024

Somewhere within Nicholas Belardes's novel "The Deading" is a fascinating environmentalist horror novel, mixed in with an alien virus invasion story reminiscent of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". The problem is that getting in the way of the novel is a distracting (albeit entertaining) obsession wi......more

Goodreads review by Diana on January 10, 2025

Rating: 4.0 ⭐️ Updated Review: “It’s like they’re deading.” in other words: Uh-oh. 😫 Can you imagine bodies going still, mouths foaming, eyes rolling back, people dropping dead (or so it seems) and then they come back like nothing happened? Yeah, they are just "deading". Nicholas Belardes's debut novel......more