After: After the Cure by Carrie Ryan

After is a novel consisting of nineteen short stories telling tales of apocalypse and dystopia. Many of them to me seem extremely weird and confusing, but this story was different. It wasn't just the everyday 'there was a big riot and then the government killed everybody and then zombies came'. This put a new spin on a sort of rabid vampire-zombie mix. Also, it took place afterword. This was the story of a girl who had survived the disease. She had lived through it and been cured. The cured 'victims', as the government intended they'd be called, now had to re-intigrate with society, had to sit next to and talk to people whose family they may have murdered. They weren't excepted, they weren't tolerated by some. They were persecuted and alienated, stuck in purgatory. I especially liked this story because of this. She was trying to fit in after being a ravenous monster. She had to try and become who she used to be, try to remember who she even was. This unique idea made this story one of my favorites.