6/23/2023 0 Comments Rot and ruin book![]() ![]() Those sections were very emotional and poignant. How the Rot and Ruin looked/smelled/felt, how the bounty hunters operated, Benny’s introduction to being an apprentice, his reaction to actually seeing a zombie killed. The first half of Rot & Ruin focused mostly on setting up the stage. Jonathan Maberry should write a book about Tom! Strong, kind, intelligent, deeply-ingrained sense of morality and honor, loves his little brother even though Benny “hates” him, tortured, etc., etc. ![]() (Except for Lilah, who was a little cheesy.) Tom was, without a doubt, my favorite. Maberry’s characters, as a rule, were all fantastic. There aren’t a lot of sibling dynamics running around in the YA age-range, especially ones so well written as Benny and Tom. The relationship between Benny and Tom was absolutely fantastic. Rot & Ruin is a very elegant, intellectual zombie novel. Yet the action scenes weren’t what I liked most about Rot & Ruin, and I’d be willing to guess that it wasn’t the big message Maberry wanted his readers to take away.įrom where I sit, “zombies are people too” is the biggest theme maybe “respect the dead-even the living dead.” Either way, this book was intensely thought-provoking, very emotional, and just all around intelligently presented. Certainly, the latter half of the book has a lot of zombie chasing, zombie fights, blood’n’guts, etc. And I suppose that’s what it is, on the surface. Jonathan Maberry’s Rot & Ruin comes advertized as a zombie novel. What changes is what we know about it and what we’re willing to believe.” - Rot & Ruin ![]()
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