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"Chock-full of gory action, complicated teen relationships, and several plot twists."--"School Library Journal"
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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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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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. I can recommend this book highly a vastly entertaining read that I was gonna pass on as a gift but now I want to Keep !
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I love zombie novels, they are one of my favourite genres and I am guaranteed to buy or borrow anything with even the hint of shuffling undead. World War Z has a permanent place on my bedside table so I was drawn to this series when I heard about it.
I just finished the last page of this book and my heart is pounding and my mind is reeling. In this series (beginning with Rot and Ruin) Jonathan Maberry has created a wholly realistic world, peopled with incredibly human characters. There are bad guys (although never who you would expect) and good guys (who have their own flaws), living in a California devastasted by the zombie crisis 14 years before.
I was completely drawn in to this book, so much so that I devoured (ha!) all 500 pages in an evening. The twists and turns of the plot always felt fresh and surprising and Maberry has bought something new to the zombie genre, bringing me to a place where I can even pity the zombie -always whilst fearing too of course.
There is the traditional gore, but unlike other zombie novels this has a depth to the exciting plot, characters that you can care about, well written exciting scenes that will take your breath away and even...dare I say it...a little bit of teenage love-although this never goes further than a lot of angst and a tiny bit of kissing. It all feels so natural, so much a part of the story that I wasn't put off by it. Refreshingly there are some fantastic female characters who do not mope and whinge, do not rely on the male members of the group to protect them and do not use their burgeoning sexuality at all. They get out there and are part of the team, they struggle like the others and survive like the others.
I am impressed. I rarely buy new books nowadays but I'll be buying this one, the first one and any others in this series that come along, on the proviso that Mr Maberry continues to hold my rapt attention in the way he did in this book. Bravo.
I just finished the last page of this book and my heart is pounding and my mind is reeling. In this series (beginning with Rot and Ruin) Jonathan Maberry has created a wholly realistic world, peopled with incredibly human characters. There are bad guys (although never who you would expect) and good guys (who have their own flaws), living in a California devastasted by the zombie crisis 14 years before.
I was completely drawn in to this book, so much so that I devoured (ha!) all 500 pages in an evening. The twists and turns of the plot always felt fresh and surprising and Maberry has bought something new to the zombie genre, bringing me to a place where I can even pity the zombie -always whilst fearing too of course.
There is the traditional gore, but unlike other zombie novels this has a depth to the exciting plot, characters that you can care about, well written exciting scenes that will take your breath away and even...dare I say it...a little bit of teenage love-although this never goes further than a lot of angst and a tiny bit of kissing. It all feels so natural, so much a part of the story that I wasn't put off by it. Refreshingly there are some fantastic female characters who do not mope and whinge, do not rely on the male members of the group to protect them and do not use their burgeoning sexuality at all. They get out there and are part of the team, they struggle like the others and survive like the others.
I am impressed. I rarely buy new books nowadays but I'll be buying this one, the first one and any others in this series that come along, on the proviso that Mr Maberry continues to hold my rapt attention in the way he did in this book. Bravo.
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