Rot & Ruin (Benny Imura #1)
In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a...
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In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781442402331 (1442402334)
ASIN: 1442402334
Publish date: May 3rd 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 458
Edition language: English
Series: Benny Imura (#1)
Zombie fun and games, but the games aren't fun. Excellent zombie tale of truths, lies, mistakes, abuse, control and revenge. There are some men that are just evil, and they aren't zombies. The dead have control of the world. The living are living in fear, hidden behind walls, willing to just exist t...
The narrator almost ruined this book for me. The only voice that I felt was done anywhere near the definition of 'well' was The Hammer's. And that's only because it sounded interesting and rather amusing, this big tough muscle man who hunts zom's for a living with this little high pitched, red-neck ...
I don't know why I didn't finish this book the first time - it's grand fun to read. Definitely going to check out Patient Zero (although from the blurbs of the following books the apocalypse gets averted, which... Nah.)
Wow, this is one of the best zombie novels I have ever read! This novel is great for readers 12 and up. There is the perfect balance of raw emotion and non-stop action.A book that runs in the same vein as Warm Bodies, Maberry dives in and shows what it is to be human. While most of the novel focuses...
I'm not even sure where to begin with this book, so . . . Content warnings:ableist languagesexismviolence and goreexoticism (possibly?)The concept of this book sounded promising: in a post-apocalyptic world overrun with zombies, children need to get jobs once they turn fifteen or they'll lose their ...