Rot  Ruin, Jonathan Maberry
Rot  Ruin, Jonathan Maberry
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Rot & Ruin

Author: Jonathan Maberry

Narrator: Brian Hutchison

Unabridged: 13 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/10/2010


Synopsis

Benny Imura’s town is infested with zombies—the scourge of society. But a surprising series of events bring Benny to question who the real monsters are.

Everyone knows kids have to get a job by the time they turn 15 to keep full food rations, and Benny’s deadline is looming. He despises zombies as much as anyone—his parents were killed by them—but Benny figures it’ll be boring whacking zoms for cash.
Yet when he becomes his brother’s apprentice, he discovers there’s more to hunting than he thought … and more to life than he imagined.

Through Benny’s transformation from apathy to understanding, multiple Bram Stoker Award–winning author Jonathan Maberry tells a moving tale of inner transformation.

“Thrilling, enticing, and surprisingly touching, Rot & Ruin will grip readers from beginning to end. …”—Heather Brewer, bestselling author

ALA Best Books For Young Adults • ALA Quick Picks Nominee • Cybils Award • Bram Stoker Award Finalist • ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (Top Ten) • Multiple State Awards

About Jonathan Maberry

Jonathan Maberry is a multiple winner of the Bram Stoker Award. His nonfiction works include Vampire Universe: The Dark World of Supernatural Beings That Hunt Us, Haunt Us and Hunger For Us, The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange and Downright Bizarre (with David F. Kramer; winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction), and Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead. His fiction includes the Pine Deep Trilogy, which began with Ghost Road Blues (winner of the Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006), continued with Dead Man's Song and concluded with Bad Moon Rising. Jonathan is a frequent writers conference speaker and has appeared at PennWriters, PhilCon, HorrorFind, BackSpace, Monster Mania, Philadelphia Writers Conference The World Horror Convention, LunaCon, Dragon*Con, Wildwood Writers Conference, University of Pennsylvania Writers Conference, and many others. He lives in Bucks County with his wife, Sara, and son, Sam.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Penny

This is what I learned from reading Rot & Ruin: 1. Zombies iz people too. So they should be treated with respect, yo. (more about this later) 2. Books containing zombies can be really irritating and boring. You see, I didn't know this was a possibility. I mean, it's zombies we're talking about here.......more

My little brother and I generally get along very well. Except for an occasional intellectual disagreements on ethics, morality, religion or politics we're pretty close. However, he can sometimes be a naive pain-in-the-butt. Until reading Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry, I assumed this was something t......more

Goodreads review by Trudi

I have been on a zombie reading frenzy lately – I see a zombie book and I must read it, I can’t help myself. And the books are coming fast and furious, especially in the YA area. Some are good, some are awful, and some are outstanding. Jonathan Maberry’s Rot and Ruin falls somewhere just shy of outs......more