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Rot & Ruin
by Jonathan Maberry
It's spooky season! Great, light, fun adventure novel set in a very 2010-era zombie apocalypse. Young Benny discovers through his brother that the business of hunting zombies for profit is... morally ambiguous??
There's one interesting idea in this book that draws heavily upon zombie narrative tropes you've seen time and time again, but this book's action and pacing draws you in and--like the undead to a warm-blooded human--doesn't want to let go.
Worldbuilding is rife with opportunity that is undoubtedly explored in subsequent installments (there are four sequels). Though the story is obviously geared toward a male audience (awkward adolescent yearnings for underwritten female characters include descriptions of how a female character's t-shirt stretches across her skin; another female is oblivious she's showing "miles of cleavage" and our poor main character just can't keep his eyes off her), who am I to gatekeep?
This book does earn some bonus points: the book's final pages feature illustrations of some of our most prominent characters, not something you see in every novel.
There's one interesting idea in this book that draws heavily upon zombie narrative tropes you've seen time and time again, but this book's action and pacing draws you in and--like the undead to a warm-blooded human--doesn't want to let go.
Worldbuilding is rife with opportunity that is undoubtedly explored in subsequent installments (there are four sequels). Though the story is obviously geared toward a male audience (awkward adolescent yearnings for underwritten female characters include descriptions of how a female character's t-shirt stretches across her skin; another female is oblivious she's showing "miles of cleavage" and our poor main character just can't keep his eyes off her), who am I to gatekeep?
This book does earn some bonus points: the book's final pages feature illustrations of some of our most prominent characters, not something you see in every novel.