Where the Dead Go to Die, Aaron Dries
Where the Dead Go to Die, Aaron Dries
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Where the Dead Go to Die

Author: Aaron Dries, Mark Allan Gunnells

Narrator: Raquel Beattie

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/19/2021


Synopsis

There are monsters in this world. And they used to be us. Now it's time to euthanize, to survive in a hospice where Emily, a woman haunted by her past, only wants to do her job and be the best mother possible.
Post-infection Chicago. Christmas. Inside The Hospice, Emily and her fellow nurses do their rounds. Here, men and women live out their final days in comfort, segregated from society, and are then humanely terminated before fate turns them into marrow-craving monsters known as "Smilers". Outside these imposing walls, rabid protesters swarm with signs, caught up in the heat of their hatred.
Emily, a woman haunted by her past, only wants to do her job and be the best mother possible. But in a world where mortality means nothing, where guns are drawn in fear and nobody seems safe anymore - at what cost will this pursuit come? And through it all, the soon to be dead remain silent, ever smiling. Such is their curse.
This emotional, political novel comes from two of horror’s freshest voices, and puts a new spin on an eternal topic: the undead. In the spirit of George A Romero meets Jack Ketchum, Where the Dead Go to Die it is an unforgettable epilogue to the zombie genre, one that will leave you shaken and questioning right from wrong...even when it’s the only right left.
It won't be long before that snow-speckled ground will be salted by blood.

Reviews

This story was hard to read. I must have started it 2 or 3 times, but I'd find something else to read. Something easy. This was hard. From the very first sentence, and into the next chapter I knew that I would end up broken-hearted. See, I love zombie stories. This wasn't a good, old fashioned kill '......more

Goodreads review by Misty Marie on March 13, 2022

I didn't expect to go through a whole range of emotions for a short read. Definitely a unique take on the living dead and how we as a people address them. Out of all the situations I have read about, this seems to be the most realistic to me. Plenty of blood and gore to go around, but that ending is......more

Goodreads review by Gianfranco on December 18, 2016

Not your typical zombie (No, no, no! We don't say that word here!) story at all. A grim and sad christmas horror tale with well developed characters and world-building: in the last days of the outbreak, infected are not killed on sight but "guests" in caretaker institutes until their "passing". Really......more

Goodreads review by lee_readsbooks on December 04, 2019

Trees rot. And bone eaters must bite the dust. This story is absolutely heartbreaking... I guess it would slot into the post apocalyptic genre as it is about a world with zombies. The book takes a different approach to zombies, humanizing the infected people. As the zombie virus takes time to mutate, i......more

Goodreads review by destiny ♡ on December 28, 2023

I'll try my best to do this book justice with a review, but it isn't every day that you find a new favorite zombie book of all time. Every day has its destiny. The cracking icicle that's almost ready to fall. A branch weighed by too much snow, soon to break. Clouds that try and try to hold in th......more