”Electronics and complex machines were no longer allowed in town, because of a strong religious movement that associated that kind of power with the “Godless behavior” that had brought about “the end.”” But even after all this time, these people have chosen to live a stagnant life of monotony rather than attempt to grow and develop as a people and overcome the zombies. Even people who die of natural causes come back as zombies. How zombies came to be is never explained either, which, I missed because I always love a good explanation for their existence. People have developed a rut to the point where they have no desire to attempt taking back their world so they survive by living locked inside a chain link fence living in cabins and surviving without electricity. The society 14 years after ‘First Night’ is a far cry from the world today. Rot & Ruin’s ‘original aspect’ focused on a group of people trying to change the world to make people see and understand that zombies don’t have any control over their actions and that they were once people and should be treated as such. I don’t feel that this book did it… what this book felt like to me was a typical YA story with zombies thrown in as an after-thought. Because of this I know that it’s important for the author to come up with some original aspect to centralize their story around.

I’ve read several zombie books in the recent months. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half.

Rot & ruin book series