Let’s just say one of the new characters introduced brings a whole different light to the series.įLESH & BONE may actually be the darkest of the Benny Imura series. Sure, sometimes they are a bit over-the-top, but they are always developed.Īs for new characters… well, I can’t say much without ruining the surprise. Maberry’s villains come to life on the page. Many authors seem to think that villains in YA novels don’t need to be fully developed, and don’t develop them. It would be easy, especially in a YA novel (as we’ve all seen so many times), to make the villains flat and boring.
To me, Maberry is fantastic at portraying each villain as a unique character with unique motivations. The villains of FLESH & BONE are very entertaining. It really becomes a question of loss, and how these characters deal with it. Each of these characters have been through a lot, and it isn’t until this novel that they really begin to deal with the emotional fallout of the terrible experiences they’ve participated in. The great thing about this novel, apart from the refreshing plot, is the emphasis on character growth and relationships. His knack for action and character drama makes them highly entertaining.
Jonathan Maberry's Benny Imura series sits right up at the top of the YA genre. And they are acting far different than usual. They go from place to place, settlement to settlement, and… free… people from their existences. It turns out that in the Rot & Ruin (the name for the wilderness in this series), there is a strange death cult growing in numbers. FLESH & BONE does all of these things, and Maberry literally starts throwing them at you from the first page. I enjoyed the novel, but I still wanted more. In my review of DUST & DECAY, I said that it felt like that novel was more like an alternate ending to the first book more than a true sequel. Like the previous novels, FLESH & BONE follows Benny Imura, Nix, Lilah and Chong. This incident pushes them to go out into the wild to find it. As the first novel, ROT & RUIN ( EBR Review), closes, the group of teens sees a jumbo jet flying in the sky. Before I go on, I should mention (in case you have yet to begin this fantastic series) that the Benny Imura series is YA following a small group of teenagers living in a world after the zombie apocalypse has happened. The third novel in the Benny Imura series continues a short time after the events of the second novel, DUST & DECAY ( EBR Review). Why? Because a Jonathan Maberry novel never disappoints. Jonathan Maberry makes it all look so easy, doesn’t he? Book after book is released with his name gracing the cover, and we all snatch them up greedily.
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