Jamie Bartley’s Reviews > The Deading > Status Update

Nicholas Belardes dives deeply into the minds of his main characters, sometimes too deeply, pushing readers out of the narrative and away from the story with its arduous focus on details. Pages and pages of Bas’ birdwatching, along with lengthy and wordy descriptions of locations in Morro Bay and Montana de Oro State Park, make getting to the horror bits of the novel less exciting than they should be.