Rot & Ruin

I just finished reading an amazing YA book called Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry. This book was very thought provoking and really brought some cool ideas to light! It is a dystopic fiction involving zombies. The main character is the brother of a "zom killer" although he prefers to call himself a closure specialist. The book goes into the idea of challenging preconcieved notions about people and the main character,Benny Imura, learns some very hard and valuable lessons about family and about hero worship. In this book it is not everything is as it seems, rather don't judge a book by its cover! I started reading this book with the thought that "it's a zombie book, I am probably not going to really enjoy it" I figured that the first time someone ate a brain I was putting it down and starting something else! But it was a very fast paced book and wonderfully action packed without being typical zombie genre. Instead of the zoms being mindless braineaters they introduce the idea as a disease or genetic mutation(not sure which, jury is still out) and that these zoms were once someone's sister, grandfather or parent. This is an excellent read. Pleasantly surprised by it and I do believe there is a sequel!