Six months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin. It's also six months since Benny Imura and Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives. Now, after months of rigorous training with Benny's zombie-hunter brother Tom, Benny and Nix are ready to leave their home forever and search for a better future. Lilah the Lost Girl and Benny's best friend Lou Chong are going with them. Sounds easy; sounds wonderful. Except that everything that can go wrong does. Before they can even leave there is a shocking zombie attack in town. And as soon as they step into the Rot & Ruin they are pursued by the living dead, wild animals, insane murderers and the horrors of Gameland. Because in the great Rot & Ruin everything wants to kill you. Everything. And not everyone in Benny's small band of travellers will make it out alive.
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"Chock-full of gory action, complicated teen relationships, and several plot twists."--"School Library Journal"
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Jonathan Maberry is a multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. His novels include Ghost Road Blues (winner of the Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006), Dead Man's Song, Bad Moon Rising, and Patient Zero. He writes The Black Panther comic for Marvel, as well as a variety of projects involving Wolverine and Spider-Man. Rot & Ruin is his first book for young readers.
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By BJE
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Dust and Decay is the follow up to the superb Rot and Ruin. As all that remains in Mountain Side is bad memories and boredom the crew which is Benny, Tom, Lilah, Nix and Chong (all though Chong is only planning to spend the night and then return to Mountain Side) set out into the vast plains of the Rot and Ruin in the slim hope of tracking down the mysterious passenger jet that flew off East into the distance. And unfortunately things go bad very early with a very strange but dangerous encounter with a Rhino! From that point things continue to get worse the further they venture into the Rot and Ruin.
Things get a lot more interesting after that and they also get split up after Chong goes missing. So suddenly the formidable team turns into scared stragglers. Also we see a lot more of Gameland in this book as it was only mentioned in Rot and Ruin as a few of the characters are thrown in themselves, this shows the reader why the characters in Rot and Ruin always frowned in disgust when it was mention because it really is something sick and disturbing. Gameland is where the force kidnapped children to fight for their lives in pits full of zombies.
This book really impressed me as the world feels so real and believable which is a very hard thing to do considering its based in apocalyptic world full of zombies. The characters are easy to relate too but for me personally Nix is just annoying. But they are all well rounded and again believable. The book has a really sad ending and I was genuinely sad. For me this is the best Young Adult zombie book out and I have read quite a few so I have a decent experience on this genre.
Judging by the ending there will be a third instalment to the series and I can't wait.
Hope I was helpful.
Things get a lot more interesting after that and they also get split up after Chong goes missing. So suddenly the formidable team turns into scared stragglers. Also we see a lot more of Gameland in this book as it was only mentioned in Rot and Ruin as a few of the characters are thrown in themselves, this shows the reader why the characters in Rot and Ruin always frowned in disgust when it was mention because it really is something sick and disturbing. Gameland is where the force kidnapped children to fight for their lives in pits full of zombies.
This book really impressed me as the world feels so real and believable which is a very hard thing to do considering its based in apocalyptic world full of zombies. The characters are easy to relate too but for me personally Nix is just annoying. But they are all well rounded and again believable. The book has a really sad ending and I was genuinely sad. For me this is the best Young Adult zombie book out and I have read quite a few so I have a decent experience on this genre.
Judging by the ending there will be a third instalment to the series and I can't wait.
Hope I was helpful.
By Andy
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This is one of the best written and moving books I have ever read. I won't tell you the end but I am just going to say there is a lot of action and a twist which one would never expect, filled with sadness but some happiness. Hope you enjoy reading this WONDERFUL book.
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I would admit I'm not a big reader but this series has really grabbed me. This book like the first does just that grab you! Brilliant read can't wait for the next book!
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Great Novel
Really good read for the always interesting books from Jonathan Mayberry. I would thoroughly recommend this book and other in the same series by the same author
Published 3 months ago by Chivas Brothers - S Watson
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Action packed
I jumped straight into this book from the excellent Rot & Ruin, and although there was a small settling in period where the characters had jumped several months and I had only gone... Read more
Published 4 months ago by simon211175
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Felt like a bit of a re-run of ROT AND RUIN
7 months after ROT AND RUIN and Tom's taught Benny, Nix, Chong, Morgie and Lilah the survival skills to make the journey out into the Ruin in search of the plane that they saw. Read more
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This is the second in the series that starts with "Rot and Ruin". As other reviewers have said, it is supposed to have been aimed at the "teen" market, but please don't let that... Read more
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Don't stop now.
Hope another one is in the offing. Radically different from the DMS Joe Ledger books, this wonderful story gets better and better, great characters, thrills, and twists, and moving... Read more
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The Imura books are classed as young adult! Im a 40 year old man and I find the writting of these books more adult friendly than any of his Joe Ledger books of which im also a fan. Read more
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