pickThis was a different take on zombies. Once you get bit you have a few weeks before you filly turn. In an effort to be more humane, hospice centres have been set up to care for the bitten. Naturally things don't go so smoothly. Told from the perspective of a hospice nurse. Short, wintery, Christmas-ish.
pickThis is a zombie book which asks the question "if a person is infected but hasn't turned yet, should you show them mercy or kill on sight?". There is no cure. Emily gets a job as a nurse at a hospice, taking care of the infected. Every day to get to work, she crosses a picket line of people who want to kill all the infected. This is fast moving. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. This stays with you after you read it.
pickI love a good zombie book, and this one ended up being one of my top 10 books of the year. The real horror comes from the loss of control and hatred of other people. It drives home the idea of a person's right to be treated as a person. This book is heartfelt and haunting. It's going to stick with me for a long time.
TW: rape (discussion not scene), gore, nursing home/end of life care
December Reads
The King of Plagues - Jonathan Maberry 🎧
Force Collector - Kevin Shinick
Assassin's Code - Jonathan Maberry 🎧
The Rats - James Herbert
The Dead Girls Club - Damien Angelica Walters
Extinction Machine - Jonathan Maberry 🎧
Where the Dead Go to Die - Aaron Dries & Mark Allen Gunnells
Beneath Ash & Bone - D. Alexander Ward
House of Reckoning - John Saul 🎧
Getting in the festive mood with my next read.
Where the Dead Go to Die | 
