I finished this book in one night, I could not put it down at all. I started at about 8:22 am and read all the way through every class I was in and after school until 6:21pm where I realized I had finished it and was craving another. The protagonist Benny is a kid who grew up after the zombies ca...
I really enjoined this book, Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry. Hes is a fantastic author and I would highly recommend this book for anyone looking for an adventure or a good zombie read. The Rot in Ruin is the 1st book of 3, so far. I'm not sure if there will be a Fourth. I liked the Rot and Ruin...
I don't really want to waste a lot of time reviewing a book I didn't like. I zoomed through the audiobook version at 3x speed once I realized its "quality". It read like an '80s action b-movie that lacked any sense of self-mocking kitsch. There was even a secret base over a volcano... sigh... As ...
The Green Man says: The World hasn't changed. Death has changed. There are still good people and bad people.Its true. Dust and Decay takes place 6 mos. after Gameland was burned to the ground by Tom Imura. Charlie Pink Eye (one of the very bad people) is dead but there are still evil, greedy...
This was a fantastic read. Maberry really is the king of the zombie genre. He created this wholly original idea involving zombies and it was just so good. It had a lot of action, good cop banter, and very good character. I love how Jonathan Maberry can take a creature as old as a zombie and creat...
Dead of Night by Jonathan Maberry is an intense, action-packed, creepy, hang on to the seats of your pants zombie story. It all takes place in a tiny town in sleepy Stebbins County, PA, and all takes place in more or less a day (though there are some flashback episodes). The story revolves around...
My name is Claire Milles and I, read this book. Actually I read the whole series and loved them all. Tom, is my favorite character and always will be. I really was surprised by how tought Benny has gotten. Chong is my next favorite character. Chong and Lilah together are like....YASSSS. I really ...
In ASSASSIN’S CODE, the fourth book in author Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series, Joe Ledger and the DMS go on a relentless chase to stop an ancient order of killers who are also vampires from plunging the entire world into Holy War…. Also… They are Vampires with nukes…. Cus what’s more scary...
Audiobook Review4 StarsWouldn't you hate to be trapped in Jonathan Mayberry's head? I've avoided reading or watching any zombie-esque works. I've never even watched 'The Walking Dead.' The thought of undead is so 1960's for me that it's old news, and really, really unpleasant news. But -- I final...
So far this is actually my least favourite book in the series. Don't get me wrong, it's a good story, the kind I've come to expect from the Joe Ledger series. I think my biggest problem is that the dynamic of the two main bad guys, Shelton and Mr. Bones, is strikingly similar to Gault's and Toys'...
Glad I read this before the 3rd book in the series.In this short story, we meet Riot, a new character who's fighting and living alone in the vast openness of the former America, now called the Rot & Ruin. She used to be from the "Night Church", a bunch of righteous bastards who believe that "send...
'V-Wars' edited by Jonathan Maberry is a series of shared universe stories in which a vampire virus outbreak has occurred. There are some shared events, and a couple shared characters, a patient zero and a vampire expert. The nice twist is that the virus resides in our dna in what is known as j...
This was a little hard to follow between the story lines sometimes but Altogether the stories were pretty good. Some of them could have used a little more follow through but i think there is a sequel in the oven so we'll see if some stories get added to. Otherwise this was a good collection of sh...
I adore the original Wolfman movies, black and white, when I heard about the remake, I was excited. Unfortunately, I do not really care for Benicio del Toro as a lead, and found that I could barely watch the movie, because he is not easy to look at.Then I saw this book, figured what the hell.I a...
I'm not going to actually rate either #.5 or #1.5 because I'm just not sure how to. I enjoyed them for what they are, bonus content for fans to either give a bit more insight into the characters' world or to tide us over until the next book. Or both. At least reading them *after* finishing bk #2...
I'm not going to actually rate either #.5 or #1.5 because I'm just not sure how to. I enjoyed them for what they are, bonus content for fans to either give a bit more insight into the characters' world or to tide us over until the next book. Or both. At least reading them *after* finishing bk #2...
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel From a new master of horror comes an apocalyptic showdown between the residents of a secluded, rural town and the deadly evil that confronts them wherever they turn . . . Evil Doesn't Die The cozy little town of Pine Deep buried the horrors of...
Although this is the third Pine Deep story included in this collection, it is unique in three important ways. Firstly because it is a prequel, of sorts, to the Pine Deep Trilogy. Second, because it was the first Pine Deep story I ever wrote. And third, because it was the lead story in the fir...
Horribly, frighteningly, terribly true. The Heart of Darkness was broken. He could feel his own heart beating the wrong way, and for a minute he closed his eyes to listen, to feel. The beat was still there, but it was changing. Skipping every now and then. And slowing. No. That was wrong. It wasn...
Zombie CSU 11. If zombies are dead or, as some of our medical experts theorize, working on a reduced metabolism, their body temperature may be so low that thermal scans may either miss them or get confused readings.
The girl’s head turned too. There, on the gravel-strewn shoulder of the road, was a boy. Not a dead boy. This one was very much alive. He was no more than ten, thin and dark-haired, with skin the color of chocolate. He wore faded blue jeans, sneakers—real pre-apocalypse sneakers—and a T-shirt wit...
“I need to go to the bathroom,” said Doctor Davidovich. The Gentleman ignored him; however, Pharos turned and smiled. They were sitting in a row—the burned man on the far end, swathed in bandages and connected to his wires and tubes, and Pharos and the scientist on his left. The two mercenaries s...
“Mr. President,” said Scott Blair, “Captain Imura’s team is on-site at the Stebbins Little School. I’m waiting now on word about the drives.” “How soon can Imura get those drives to us?” “He won’t need to. He’ll upload them to his tactical computer and send them via burst transfer to us. We’ll ha...
He could sleep through the sounds of battle and the wails of the dying—but a relentless microwave was hard to ignore. It was still dark outside, and the faint smell of burned food filled the entire apartment. He looked around. His mattress, which sat like a beached whale in the center of the kitc...
GMT “Captain Ledger!” I turned to see Detective Sergeant Rebekkah Owlstone hurrying along the bystreet toward me. Owlstone was the coordinator for the team to which I’d been assigned. We were doing background checks on the Hospital staff and I was coming out of a house where the family of a dead ...
He chewed cinnamon gum and watched a pigeon standing on the plumed helmet of Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg, a wonderful statue sculpted by Ludwig von Hofer in 1859. Veder had read up on the Old Castle before coming here, partly as research for this phase of the job and partly out of his fascina...
With a jerk and a growl, the Huntsman became instantly aware that he was not alone with his own thoughts. He howled his outrage and turned toward the corpse on the ground. Once more he drew back his fist and struck with savage force. Milo felt a huge burst of pain as that fist struck him in the c...
The blast picked Bunny and Top up like the hand of a fiery giant and slammed them into the opposite wall. The force hit the man in the dark suit, too, but he was already falling, struck at the same instant by bullets fired from both DMS agents’ guns. Everyone went down. The gunman toppled backwar...
Joe is a dangerous man but a badly fractured one. The victim of terrible childhood trauma, Joe has three separate and distinct personalities inside his head: The Civilized Man—that idealistic and moral part of himself; the Cop—the investigator who is all about control; and the Warrior, also known...
TRAFFIC WAS HEAVY as we approached Philly. The Phillies were playing a doubleheader, and a bunch of rock stars had put together a Freedom Rocks concert at the Wachovia Center down near the airport. Plus an estimated half million people were descending on Center City and the Liberty Center. Over...
WHEN THEY LOOKED BACK there was no sign of Saint John, and the sound of the quads had all but faded out. All that remained was a faint buzz far away. There were no more yells or gunshots, either. The forest became quiet, but it did not at all feel like a natural calm.“I don’t understand this,” sa...
Rags gaped at her. At what was happening. She was maybe ten years old. Slender and pretty. She was dressed in a costume. Black and sleek, with a stylized bat on the chest and a short cape that fluttered as she ran. Masses of curly red hair bobbed behind her. Rags searched her oldest memories for ...
The sense of urgency, of panic, of hunger, seemed to have diminished. Like a fire that has been banked but not extinguished. He walked through the cold and drafty corridors of the second floor, peering into empty rooms, looking for something that he could not name, while at the same time knowing ...
Seeing it reminded her of too many things, so she put a bullet through it. The man fell but his finger jerked the trigger of the huge single-barrel ten-gauge shotgun he carried. The buckshot sprayed the room and two pellets caught Dez—one in the shoulder and one in the cheek. She staggered, pain ...
As they climbed away from the desert floor they left the relentless brutality of the Mojave behind and found small surcease in the shadows beneath green trees. All around them, though, were remnants of what had been and hints of the new realities. Some of the most ancient trees had cracked and fa...