Series
Rot & Ruin
Jonathan Maberry · 6 novels · 2 novellas · 4 novelettes · 9 short stories · 1 collection · 2010–2020
Jonathan Maberry's Rot & Ruin is set fourteen years after a zombie plague, following fifteen-year-old Benny Imura, who reluctantly apprentices to his older half-brother as a bounty hunter clearing the dead beyond his fenced-in California town. The series follows Benny's growing understanding of both the zombies and the living people who prey on the fragile post-apocalyptic order, across four more novels and companion story collections.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Broken Lands(2 works)
- Omnibus editions(3 editions)
Map
Rot & Ruin at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s21
- 2020s1
Shape
6 novels · 2 novellas · 4 novelettes · 9 short stories · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:zombie horrorsurvivalnorth americanear futuredarkyoung adult
Mood
Grim and intense: 84% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book19 of 22 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- First Night Memoriesdarkest
- Overdue Booksbrightest
- A Christmas Feastcalmest
- Sunset Hollowmost intense