But because Benny and Chong are teenaged slackers, they don’t keep any one job for very long, so they work a whole string of them, all focused in some way on dealing with the zombie threat … and the reader gains valuable details about the world the characters live in as a result. But he can’t get away from his problem, so he and his friend Chong go in search of some kind of part-time job that isn’t too difficult. He’s especially resentful when Tom offers him an apprenticeship and sullenly turns his brother down. Benny, being a believably stubborn and somewhat lazy teenaged boy, isn’t keen on having to go to work and resents the whole situation. Maberry deftly avoids both these problems right from the start of the book.Īt the beginning of the very first chapter, Maberry establishes than in Mountainside, young adults face having their food rations cut in half when they turn fifteen if they don’t take some kind of job.
One of the really impressive things Maberry does in the novel is how he handles his world building closely within Benny’s point of view. This is a fast-paced narrative full of conflict and vivid imagery, and it’s not surprising that it became a bestseller. (Tom obeyed their mother’s order to take young Benny and run to safety, but it’s a believably teen kind of stubbornness that makes Benny turn his personal survivor’s guilt into anger at his brother.) This novel introduces 15-year-old Benny and follows his adventures as he becomes an apprentice to his zombie-killing older brother Tom, whom Benny has always resented because he feels that Tom failed to save their parents from becoming zombies.
Rot & Ruinis the first volume in Jonathan Maberry’s popular Benny Imura series.
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