Dust & Decay (Rot & Ruin, #2) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Oct 29, 2015 Shannon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, post-apocalyptic, asian-characters, dystopia, male-protagonist, young-adult, japanese-characters, male-author, horror, zombies

Yeah, so that ending fucking sucked.

(Not because of the writing or anything, but because I'm NOT happy with how things ended.)

No "Happily Ever After" here, my friends. ...more

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Jul 15, 2011 AH rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: post-apocalyptic, young-adult, zombies, zzread-july-2011, arc-galley-grab

Dust & Decay picks up seven months after the events of Rot & Ruin. Our young heroes – Benny, Nix, Lilah, and Chong have been training with Benny’s big brother Tommy. They learn his “Warrior Smart” method of protecting themselves from the zombies because you never know when one of your friends or loved ones will become a zombie…

This is a brutal world. People live in fenced, gated, and well armed communities. Travel outside these towns requires planning, heavy carpet coats, and a disgusting concoc ...more

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Aug 15, 2012 Regina rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite-authors, narration-is-great, ya, zombie, post-apocalyptic, only-listeneed-to, listened-to-audio-only, favorites, favorite-series, audio-also-listened-to

This book was amazing!! What a flipping ride. I loved it. Loved it. I can't believe I picked up the first in this series on a whim and by a recommendation only. I feel like this series should have been on my radar long before.

The narration of both Rot & Ruin and Dust & Decay is very well done; so good that I had a hard time pausing the audio to live my life (get work done, be a parent, talk to my boss, etc. etc.)

Dust & Decay starts off slowly and at some points, Tom Immura's philosophizing and ...more

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May 07, 2013 Steph rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook-listened-to, series-ended, author-유, age-group-ya-na, year-read-2013, audiobook-great-narration

Such a big change from Rot and Ruin, but I liked it! This installment is much darker and sadder. The gang spends much of their time trekking through the Rot & Ruin. These zombie books have a theme of humanity and morality woven throughout them that makes them stand out from others in the zombie/horror genre.

I look forward to continuing on with Benny and his gang. ...more

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May 05, 2016 Marla rated it really liked it

Shelves: girl-power, back-to-back, young-adult, adventure, with-reservations, romance, series, boys, asian, dystopia

Great action-packed story of trying to leave and everything going wrong.

Likes:
* Tom's friends!!
* Twists and turns
(view spoiler)

Dislikes:
* Stupid teenage decisions
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