The rules are, 6 months after your 15th Birthday all residents need to pick a career and help out. It is now 14 years later and Benny and Tom live in a town in CA surrounded by fences. He was saved by his half brother Tom, but their parents were victims. Benny Imura was a baby when the zombie apocalypse came. Also, while many reviews claim this novel has more violence and gore than most YA horror, if you read Maberry's adult novels, this one is tame in comparison. If you are not used to reading YA I should let you know what to expect: absent parents, teenaged protagonist, tough moral choices, huge coming-of-age theme. I will tell you I thoroughly enjoyed reading Rot & Ruin, but I should warn readers, it is very typically and YA novel. So with all of that hype, how could the book have lived up. I put myself down for Rot & Ruin (teen to adult) and The Radleys by Matt Haig (Adult to teen). All of us on the Steering Committee will be reading 1 YA title that would be good for adults, and 1 adult title that would be good for teens. To help matters along, this year's bibliography for the Adult Reading Round Table will be focused on YA titles. Of course, the book was on my to-read list from that moment on. Back in September, before the first book in the series, Rot & Ruin came out, I posted this interview with Maberry. Jonathan Maberry is one of my favorite horror writers. This is a cross post with RA for All: Horror
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