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Rot & Ruin

Written by: Jonathan Maberry
Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
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Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry’s Rot & Ruin is his debut work for young readers. Fifteen-year-old Benny Imura lives in a world infested with zombies where, when a kid turns 15, he must get a job to continue receiving food rations. Benny has no interest in the family business of zombie killing, but figures he doesn’t have much of a choice. He’s tried out a bunch of other jobs, and hasn’t found anything he likes. But as Benny starts training with his brother, he learns things about being human that he never expected.
©2010 Jonathan Maberry (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
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Must Read For The Undead Fan

I absolutely loved this book. The way the story was written made me not want to put it down. I just purchased "Dust And Decay" and can't wait to get into it.

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I'm not a zombie story person, but!

I'm not a zombie story person, but this is a great story! I will be listening to this again and I will be getting book 2! I want to see how these characters continue to develop. The performance was excellent as well.

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Annoying with misogynistic undertones

I am sure it is part of the character arc to make Benny the most ignorant and annoying child ever but it drove me crazy. The way the author writes about women and girls plays on so many irritating stereotypes. As much as he is attempting to portray some as strong, they’re also all in some way romantically desired or idealized, called crazy, jealous, made to sound irrational - and the one expletive used in the whole book is to call a girl a b*tch. If the character was a different ethnicity than white, it is promptly / constantly described - yet no mention of white people bc it is to be assumed the majority are white. Lazy writing IMO.

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