The zombies, wild for his blood, shower down on him from above. Just when we think Benny is home free, he stumbles and falls into a ravine. There is no mention of Chong, Nix or Lilah. Benny is on a run for his life with hundreds of zombies breathing down his neck. The reader has no chance to breathe or even catch up when Flesh & Bone opens. Rather than retreating in defeat back to Mountainside, the group decided to stay the course and head east, through the great zombie-infested Rot and Ruin. But before all was said and done, Benny’s older brother Tom was killed. After being caught by bounty hunters and brought to Gameland to compete in zombie pits against their will, the crew broke free with help from Tom’s friends and together they destroyed Gameland as well as the corrupt bounty hunters.

Benny and Tom Imura, Nix, Chong and Lilah had left the safety of Mountainside to search for the origins of the mysterious plane that flew overhead and headed east. I breezed through the first three in just one week.ĭust & Decay Book Review (Benny Imura #2)Īt the end of Dust & Decay, there was triumph and grief. One thing Benny and his companions can’t afford to forget: In the great Rot & Ruin, everything wants to kill you.Flesh & Bone is the third book in the Benny Imura series, popular zombie books for young adults.

Has the zombie plague mutated, or is there something far more sinister behind this new invasion of the living dead? Faster, smarter, and infinitely more dangerous. And then there’s the zombies-swarms of them coming from the east, devouring everything in their paths. They come face to face with a death cult. Finding it is their best hope for having a future and a life worth living.īut the Ruin is far more dangerous than any of them can imagine. If that jet exists then humanity itself must have survived…somewhere. Benny, Nix, Lilah, and Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America, searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago.

Reeling from the devastation of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. “The third time’s the charm with even more adventure-and gore-as the Rot & Ruin series continues” ( Kirkus Reviews).

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