A review by snowbenton
Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry

5.0

I was a little nervous since I didn't love the third book, but this was better than I could have imagined! Maberry did such a brilliant job bringing us from Benny Imura's tender and immature mind in the first book all the way through to a promising young man in the last -- all while never failing to let his female characters shine. And shine they do. Nix, Lilah, and Riot are three of the most badass young women I've ever had the pleasure to read about.

This book does the near impossible: wraps up a four book arc with moments of joy and moments of profound sadness, offers a plausible and satisfactory explanation for the zombie plague and its origins, somehow manages to increase the already impossibly high stakes, and shows us what humanity can be capable of when we work together--and learn what we are capable of.