The 40th Day

Deirdre Gould

May 2016 · After the Cure Book 5 · Deirdre Gould

About this ebook

 "Everyone here is already exposed. Don’t come here. Your family is dead. Your friends are dead. Do not trust anyone from the City. There may already be people out there who are infected and don’t know it. Do not let them in. Do not let yourself be moved by pity. They are deadly." 

In the concluding novel of the After the Cure series, a small splinter colony of surviving humans struggle to protect themselves from a devastating plague. Without modern medicine, without electricity or hope of outside aid, the only resort is quarantine. But when even that proves not to be enough to protect the remaining healthy population, a tiny group of Infected race against their own bodies to destroy the Plague at its source. 

The After the Cure Series:

Book 1: After the Cure Book 

2: The Cured Book 

3: Krisis Book 

4: Poveglia Book 

5: The 40th Day

And a new story in the After the Cure world: Before the Cure now available

Dystopian, plague outbreak, zombie apocalypse, medical thriller, epidemic disaster, quarantine, strong female character

Ratings and reviews

Overall I enjoyed this series as evidenced by the fact that I kept reading after the first book and until the last. Here's some things I liked. The characters were easy to love even though they were quite flawed. Henry, Marnie, Vincent , and Ruth were my favorites. I liked Father Preston's redemptive arc and it was written well. I liked that Marnie, was a smart, resourceful girl who didn't just jump into the arms of every man who offered her safety. I enjoyed the relationships between the characters, Rickey and Henry, Vincent and Father Preston. Now a few gripes, A LOT OF TYPOS. Quite a few contradictions, a character would say something and then two pages later completely contradict themselves. No closure on a grand scale. The science is completely unexplained and the whole plot of the story where the people from the city that created the plague would also find the cure, is really unbelievable. Final thoughts-it was an enjoyable read,but logic needs to be thrown out the window.

The series had its ups and downs. I really didn't like the book before the final one. But I liked the final chapters of this one even though I didn't like the whole second plague thing.

I like the whole series, but I would have preferred a bit more zombie (er infected) action in the last book.

About the author

 Deirdre Gould lives in Central Maine with her three children and husband. She's also resided in northern Idaho, coastal Virginia and central Pennsylvania, but all of them just led her back home.The winters sure are cold, but that just means the zombies run slower. The area is isolated, but that just means the apocalyptic diseases don't spread as quickly. And the storms are bad enough that no one thinks you're crazy for "prepping." It's kind of ideal for a post-apocalypse writer when you think about it.