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Rot & Ruin
by Jonathan Maberry
Well, you know it's going to be an awkward reading experience when you get a YA "fantasy" book with a 15 year old protagonist and your own teen years are behind you for some time now. Tho, sometimes you get pleasantly surprised by it, but this is not the case.
My biggest problem with this book is how naively it is written. Ok, like I said the protagonist is a 15yo boy and he is in his kind of rebel fase, but man, what's too much is too much. You can't convince me that he doesn't know what his brother is doing, that he changes his mind so easily, he fells in love with a picture and the plot twist are even more naive and I've guessed them all.
The zombies are background noise throughout most of this book and sometimes even literally just that even in climax scenes. And the lesson in ethics - "zombies are human too" is just unrealistic. I mean, ok, it was someone's dad, but now he is gonna eat you, so just kill him. Don't torture, don't humiliate it, but kill it or you are never going to reclaim the world.
The thing I did like is that the life in new settlements is well described and it's normal to expect people get all medieval and scared and the questionable social organisations are likely to be see the light. But that's it. That's the only good part. And I won't even talk about the romance part because it's just too cringy to repeat it.
My biggest problem with this book is how naively it is written. Ok, like I said the protagonist is a 15yo boy and he is in his kind of rebel fase, but man, what's too much is too much. You can't convince me that he doesn't know what his brother is doing, that he changes his mind so easily, he fells in love with a picture and the plot twist are even more naive and I've guessed them all.
The zombies are background noise throughout most of this book and sometimes even literally just that even in climax scenes. And the lesson in ethics - "zombies are human too" is just unrealistic. I mean, ok, it was someone's dad, but now he is gonna eat you, so just kill him. Don't torture, don't humiliate it, but kill it or you are never going to reclaim the world.
The thing I did like is that the life in new settlements is well described and it's normal to expect people get all medieval and scared and the questionable social organisations are likely to be see the light. But that's it. That's the only good part. And I won't even talk about the romance part because it's just too cringy to repeat it.