His scenes with Lilah (who remains my favourite character) were some of my favourites and I loved the dog. That said, it’s another dark book, I enjoyed the pace and the ending is such that I will definitely be reading the conclusion.įans of Maberry will be delighted to see the introduction of Joe Ledger from his ‘grown up’ books and I liked the way he brought a sense of the wider world to this quartet. St John is an interesting antagonist, whose background I won’t spoil but who represents a very real physical and ideological threat but Mother Rose was less well rounded and I wished there’d been a scene between her and new character Riot to expand on their relationship. As Maberry says in his foreword, this is also a book about grief – both Benny and Nix are dealing with the deaths of those closest to them, which is having consequences for their own relationship and gives the book a solid emotional core.

The third in Jonathan Maberry’s BENNY IMURA QUARTET is a return to form with an action-packed, fast-paced YA story that expands on Benny’s world and introduces a new and dangerous threat to everything he knows. An army of reapers is gathering that’s intent on bringing the apocalypse to every settlement they come across … Benny, Chong, Nix and Lilah are looking for the jet they first saw in ROT AND RUIN but things aren’t going well - the zombies are adapting, moving faster, learning how to use tools. Has the zombie plague mutated, or is there something more sinister behind this new invasion of the walking dead?

If that plane does exist, then humanity itself must have survived … somehow, somewhere.īut as they travel across the wasteland, the friends discover that the zombies are changing … becoming faster, smarter and infinitely more dangerous. But the group know that to survive they can’t look back, and instead must keep moving forward and hope they can find the jet they saw in the skies months ago. In the land of the dead, four friends search for the key to life …īenny Imura and his friends are still reeling from the terror and tragedy that has followed them ever since they began their journey through the heart of the zombie-infested Rot and Ruin.

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