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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
I just cannot get past the whole ZOMBIES R PEOPLE TOO THEY MUST DIE WITH DIGNITY plot-line.
At the beginning of this I wasn't liking it. I found Benny to be whiny. As the story goes on and Benny grows some and is exposed to new horrors and begins to understand his world better, I started to enjoy it more. I listened to thus as an audiobook but through my library consortium I am unable to find the rest of the series as audiobooks.
This may have been written for a younger audience (i am over 35) I was captured from page one and read the entire book in a day. It is one of the best stories i have read in awhile. It wasn't about the zombies or the apocalypse, it is about trying to be "normal" after and coming of age in an unthinkable world. Everyone I have recommended it to has loved it as much as i did.
I rather enjoyed this book. I really like how the author added so many twists into the story that kept making me feel shocked, time after time. If you enjoy zombie books I guess you would enjoy this story(:
I was very unsure of this book at first. I'm not big into zombies, but I was pleasantly surprised with the book. However, the main character is definitely not my favorite. It took me a good chunk of the book to get to where I liked him. He came off as whiny and immature at the beginning of the book. While I understood that the point of the book was for Benny to grow (and he definitely did), his irrational hatred of the zombies (more than anyone there), attachments to dangerous characters like Charlie, and loathing of his brother for no apparent reason really rubbed me the wrong way. I really liked the plot of the book though. I felt that it was complex without being complicated just for the sake of being complicated. It also had a decent amount of closure but still set up the next book. I'll probably finish the series.
It’s been fourteen years since the world changed on First Night and the dead reanimated. Benny Imura is just a few weeks shy of turning fifteen and seeing his ration dollars cut in half unless he can find a job around his hometown of Mountainside.
After trying to apprentice with almost everyone in town, Benny has no choice other than to join his boring older brother, Tom, as a zombie hunter and closure specialist. The family business as Tom likes to call it. Benny figures whacking zombies would be an easy job but it turns out there is more to Tom’s job than meets the eye.
Full review over at: https://jaystareads.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/rot-ruin/
After trying to apprentice with almost everyone in town, Benny has no choice other than to join his boring older brother, Tom, as a zombie hunter and closure specialist. The family business as Tom likes to call it. Benny figures whacking zombies would be an easy job but it turns out there is more to Tom’s job than meets the eye.
Full review over at: https://jaystareads.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/rot-ruin/
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This is a fun series. I am always interested when someone writes a series set after the zombies apocalypse. Benny lives in a town called Mountainside and generally everyone in the town likes to pretend that The Great Rot and Ruin outside the gate does not even exist. Those who travel outside the gates are held up as heroes, and Benny’s brother Tom is considered to be the best. Benny however is not convinced, he believes that his brother is secretly a coward because he did not save Benny’s mother on First Night, the day the zombies started to rise. Benny’s mind is opened, however, when Tom offers to train him to go out into The Rot and Ruin. I am now currently reading the third book in this series and it is pretty good. Benny is young, immature and arrogant when the series starts but he quickly learns that what he knows about the world is not reality. Worth reading.