Rot
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So you’ve raised your loved ones from the dead, but had no idea how difficult it would be to care for them. No problem! Silver Springs is a warm... read full description

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Feb 05, 2012
Nancy rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Rot is definitely not your traditional zombie tale, full of mindless, hungry zombies and lots of gore. Dean is a former military man hired as a security guard by a facility that specializes in caring for those who are raised from the dead by family members who are unable to care for them, yet unwilling to let them go.

Amy and Patrick are newly raised zombies. Amy died from a stroke, her husband no longer willing to care for her, but unable to let her go. Patrick, a gay man, wa More...
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Jan 02, 2012
R.J. rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Confession time. Rot marks only the second Zombie book I've read. In spite of the craze, or perhaps because of it, I'd mentally written off the zombie sub-genre as one of limited possibilities, and populated with monsters who are one-dimensional and uninteresting by definition. All of which is to say, I have only read zombie stories because I know these authors in some way and they have impressed me enough to look past my prejudice and give their work a chance.

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Aug 28, 2010
Vince rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Michele Lee’s Rot is an impressive debut novella that applies everything we’ve come to know as readers about the zombie and adds a weighty sociological twist that will surprise in its implications.

Using widely-accepted zombie mythos as a framework, Lee crafts an ingenious allegory for the warehousing of the elderly in America. As a nursing home administrator, I was struck (repeatedly, as if in the head by a sledgehammer) by the similarities in how Lee’s fictional undead were mistreat More...
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Feb 26, 2010
Lincoln rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Rot tells an entirely different sort of zombie tale. There’s no zombie apocalypse, and the streets aren’t awash with the flesh and blood of humanity. Instead, the type of society Lee describes kind of makes you wish it would be consumed: people raise their dead loved ones because they can’t stand the thought of them being dead, and then foist them off on what’s basically a nursing home for the undead. Dean, hired by the company that runs the nursing home to re-kill zombies when they inevitably l More...
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Sep 04, 2009
Katie(babs) rated it: 3 of 5 stars
ROT is set in present day. The narrator of this tale is Dean who works at the Silver Springs Specialty Care Community. This facility employs people who can raise the dead as well as keep them in line. Dean is a security specialist who will shoot without remorse or as he states, “the ability to look someone’s ninety-year old grandmother in the eyes and shoot her.”

Right from the start I liked Dean. He may seem to be a cold S.O.B. but he is a military man. He is settled at the job but i More...
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Jan 12, 2010
Donald rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Dean is employed as security at Silver Springs, a care facility that is somewhat like a nursing home for zombies. As is so often the case in facilities like Silver Springs, the staff and those they care for become friends.

Enter Amy and Patrick. Amy is a newbie zombie whose husband can no longer care for her, yet cannot bear letting her go. Patrick, who is gay, was raised from the dead by his parents in hopes he would repent so as to avoid an eternity in hell.

Together, the More...
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May 15, 2010
Paul rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Disclaimer: This is a novella length work. I purchased the PDF version of the book and it should be noted that the PDF version is not formatted correctly for Sony e-reader’s enlarged text feature and the normal view text size is so small it was not readable for me. Be aware that if you use a Sony e-reader and want to enlarge the text, nearly all formatting will be lost and paragraphs and dialog will run together. I have not examined the other available e-formats to determine if the same proble More...
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Jul 27, 2010
HydraPublications rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Until I read this book I never knew you could feel sorry for zombies. Rot is a small book somewhere around 50 pages but it feels right. There is not a lot of information given about the characters past but just enough so that you feel connected to the characters.

Dean, who works for Silver Springs Specialty Care Community, works with Amy and Patrick, two zombies that still retain most of their humanity. They discover some strange things happening behind the scenes and start to investi More...
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Dec 23, 2009
Angela rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Michele Lee delivers a compact little horror story in Rot, a novella that goes into the ramifications of people in society being able to bring back loved ones from the dead--only in this case, rather than true resurrection, it's the capturing of a living spirit inside an otherwise still-dead body. Yes, folks, this is a zombie story, but one where the zombies retain sentience for as long as their bodies retain enough physical cohesion for their brains to work.

And this opens up a host More...
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May 30, 2011
Desert Rose rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Dean just started his security job at Silver Springs Specialty Care Community. A facility specifically built to care for your deceased loved ones.. The ones that are undead actually.. the ones that were turned into zombies by their families because they just couldn't let go. But after a while discover it's not easy to care for these people therefore they put them in this facility to take care of them..

But sometimes things are not what they seem..

When Dean unites with 2 zo More...
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Sep 06, 2009
Louise rated it: 4 of 5 stars
"Every person has a dark place inside them."

If one sentence from ROT sums up the novella near-perfectly, it is this one. ROT explores our dark side, and ask us who the real monsters are: humans or zombies?

ROT explores how we rationalize our cruelties, that corrupt part of our dark side. How we can give in to irresponsibility and indifference in our lives so easily. How we can be selfish in our love of others, when we refuse to let go.

It asks: What is More...
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