The Rot and Ruin

Hello people's. Today I'm writing about a book. Here it goes.

The book is called The Rot & Ruin. It's another zombie book but it adds a lot of new and interesting ideas. The book focuses on a small town in California around 14 years after the apocalypse, what they call first night. Fences and guards protect the citizens from the slow moving zoms past the red zone. There hasn't been a death to zombies in years. Carpet coats have been invented that protect from most bites, combination locks protect both sides of every door in case someone passes and comes back, cadaverine masks smell, and yet... Nobody tries to take back what they've lost.

A good size armed group of men could take back a town, eventually entire states. The major cities are gone, they were nuked during the late parts of first night and the surrounding areas are crowded with radioactive zoms but we could take back this world... But for fourteen years there's been nothing. The only people that ever go past the fence, into the Rot & Ruin are bounty hunters. Bounty hunters clear out trade routes and are sometimes sent by surviving family members to "quite" zoms, who often are trapped in their homes by closed doors or just standing in their yards for years with no movement or sound to attract them.

Benny is a kid living in the town called Mountainside he's just turned fifteen and needs to find a job to earn his ration dollars. Reluctantly he decides to train to be a bounty hunter under his older brother Tom who he considers a coward for running away from his already "turned" father leaving his mother to die. Benny was very young in Tom's arms but he could remember that memory as bright as day. Ben now has to go out into the Rot & Ruin and quickly he learns that he knows very little about the outside world and zombies are not the worst things out there...

You should definitely pick up The Rot & Ruin. Bye.


By Ashton