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mjlin2009 's review for:
Rot & Ruin
by Jonathan Maberry
Same self important, angsty, over talkative, chunky plot style as - but lower quality than - fan fiction. Awful female characters where every description has to be paired with a comment about how beautiful they are or a great mother or joking about the character’s girlfriend status. I was expecting some amount of mildly insightful philosophy about being human but the idea of compassion towards zombies is such bullshit. Only things going for the book is the asian representation and
His eyes went wide and were instantly filled with the dreadful certainty that no matter who won this night’s conflict—Charlie Pink-eye or Tom Imura—he, Marion Hammer, would own no piece of either victory or defeat, and that he would play no part in whatever future was being written here. He tried to speak, to say something, to articulate the terror and need in his heart, but that bull throat of his was no longer constructed for speech. He toppled slowly forward, like a great building finally yielding to years of corruption and decay, and then he fell into the mud.
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this quote of a character’s death:His eyes went wide and were instantly filled with the dreadful certainty that no matter who won this night’s conflict—Charlie Pink-eye or Tom Imura—he, Marion Hammer, would own no piece of either victory or defeat, and that he would play no part in whatever future was being written here. He tried to speak, to say something, to articulate the terror and need in his heart, but that bull throat of his was no longer constructed for speech. He toppled slowly forward, like a great building finally yielding to years of corruption and decay, and then he fell into the mud.