Comparison Between Dust And Decay

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Shivers Will Be Sent Down Your Spine after Reading This! Do you have an interest in adventurous books? Do you have an interest in the apocalypse and/or the Walking Dead? If so, this 2011 book by the name of Dust and Decay by Jonathan Maberry is ideal for your love for the apocalypse. The story revolves about an ambitious fifteen year old character by the name of Benny Imura. Benny as well as his friends leave there one and only safe haven to embark on a journey that they cannot handle alone. This blood thirsty book will deplete your thirst for gore and action with the various twists and turns. The emotions as well as the shivers sent down the spine will definitely make the reader relish this book. Paragraph 2: Setting Setting is the time and place where a scene occurs. Dust & …show more content…

Tom is a traveler in the Rot & Ruin. As a bounty hunter who specializes as a personal ‘closure specialist’ for people who would like to have relatives and friends who are zombies ‘quieted’, he also acts as an unofficial peacemaker to the grounds surrounding his town. With so many rogue bandits and bounty hunters roaming the area, people are wary of Tom’s leaving. They all seem to know that Tom is leaving along with his younger brother Benny, Nix and Lilah. New bounty hunters in the area such as Preacher Jack and White Bear have rebuilt Gameland. Tom tries to steer his group away from any of these new menaces on their way out of the mountains, but all goes wrong. Chong gets kidnapped and Tom runs off to save him. Benny, Lilah and Nix are left by a horde of thousands of zombies. Everything that happens to them is set up by an unforeseen enemy with a major vendetta. With all of the corrupt bounty hunters that roam the countryside, there are just as many that fight for peace and humanity and they all consider Tom to be their leader. It all comes down to an epic showdown of good versus evil at the end with courage, honor and

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