A review by _literary_nerd_
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

3.0

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.