{"id":629,"date":"2015-12-26T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/?p=629"},"modified":"2015-10-05T17:05:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T17:05:18","slug":"teen-book-review-elizabeth-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Teen Book Review &#8211; Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Rot &amp; Ruin<\/strong><\/em> by Jonathan Mabry<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre:<\/strong> Teen Fantasy<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the zombie infested world Benny has grown up in, teenagers must work once they turn fifteen-looking they&#8217;ll lose food rations. \u00a0Benny isn&#8217;t interested in taking on the family business, but he reluctantly agrees to train as a zombie killer with his boring big brother, Tom. He expects a dull job, whacking zombies for cash. What he discovers is a vocation that will teach him what it really means to be human.<\/p>\n<p>As his worldview is challenged again and again by the lessons he learns from Tom, Benny is forced to confront another horrifying reality: Sometimes the most terrible mo stern are human.<\/p>\n<p>Critically acclaimed author Jonathan Maberry crafts a terrifying future vision of a zombie apocalypse, brought to life through the rich emotional struggles of a teenager trying to find his place in a tumultuous new world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the last paragraph said, terrifyingly emotion struggles this novel will cause you. If you choose to read this book (and trust me you will want to) I promise that you will end up pulling an all nighter. This is the first installment in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Like what you read? Find an available copy or place a hold <a title=\"Rot and Ruin\" href=\"https:\/\/windsor.bibliocommons.com\/item\/show\/636231017_rot_amp_ruin\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rot-and-ruin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rot-and-ruin.jpg\" alt=\"rot and ruin\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rot &amp; Ruin by Jonathan Mabry Genre: Teen Fantasy &#8220;In the zombie infested world Benny has grown up in, teenagers must work once they turn fifteen-looking they&#8217;ll lose food rations. \u00a0Benny isn&#8217;t interested in taking on the family business, but he reluctantly agrees to train as a zombie killer with his boring big brother, Tom.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/?p=629\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teen Book Review &#8211; Elizabeth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/teens\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}