State of Decay and Ruin: State of Decay (Book One) and State of Ruin

by Peggy Martinez

STATE OF DECAY (Book One)
My name is Melody Carter. A Boeing 767 fell from the sky and wiped out most of my neighborhood. But, that's the least of my worries. My list of "Things I'm Most Worried About" shifted dramatically when my dad told me that the charred corpses tried to make a meal out of their rescuers.... This is my story.
It is not for the faint of heart.

STATE OF RUIN (Book Two)
Tex Jackson is tired of all the death and killing, but what choice does he have when the entire world has gone to Hell in a hand basket? It's kill or be killed, a man-eat-man world now. And if that ain't screwed up enough, it's also a living-take-advantage-of-the-living world. But Tex is sure of one thing and that is that any life worth living is worth fighting for. And he planned to do just that.

**This book series has been picked up by Permuted Platinum and has been newly edited and re-published to include the first two books in the State of Decay Series.**

Genres: Zombies

310 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2015

Reviews

[Justine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book in my October special edition LitCube subscription box. At first I didn't realize it was two books in one. But I was really grateful for that when I got into it and was reading. I enjoyed this book a lot but there were a few things that annoyed me lol. I didn't like how the two main characters in book one fell in love in like 3 days or something silly. I also didn't like the kind of love triangle thing that was going on. Otherwise I enjoyed the story. I'm excited for book three.

[Camille · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wasn't sure what to rate this one so I'm sort of rounding up. I was kept interested in them so that's the biggest factor in my high rating. However, I didn't like how rushed everything felt in Melody's book. It felt too short. Melody and Jude's insta-love felt unrealistic. I found myself scoffing a lot as I read. I liked Tex's book a lot better but was kind of disappointed at one point. I am sort of glad that it ended the way it did after what happened to Maria. Supposedly there's a third book so I will check it out if I can find it.

[Ellen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received this book as part of a special Zombie edition of LitCube. The book was written by the woman who runs the program. I didn't love it but I didn't hate it either. She had the potential for great things and had a lot of great ideas. But, I kept getting distracted by grammatical errors and things I would have done differently. It was a good book but had a predictable ending (twice).