Years after the plague...years after all of the dead stood up and started eating humans, there are a few small towns rebuilding. Benny and his brother Tom made it out of their house on First Night. They ran from their parents and the zombies. Now, years later, they live in Mountainside. Benny has turned fifteen and that means he must apprentice to learn a trade or lose his food rations. Soon he learns the truth about the town, about his brother, and his so called heroes. When Benny is forced to enter the Rot and Ruin of the zombie infested world outside the Mountainside fences, he must do things he never thought possible to survive and save the ones he loves.
Fans of Hunger Games will like this story of teen survival in the face of the adult agenda. It is well written in the true voice of a teen guy. There are amazingly resilient female characters and a world that is frightening real. As with all zombie stories this book reflects back the worst and the best in humans. Sadly the zombies are not the worst monsters in the story. I recommend this to fans of Hunger Games, zombie stories, and survival stories.
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