The much-anticipated sequel to young adult zombie love story Warm Bodies (which was the object of a fairly decent adaptation to the screen by Jonathan Levine with Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich) fulfills all the promises of the moving Romeo-and-Juliet-of- the-apocalypse premise of the initial volume. In a world devastated by a zombie plague, R, one of countless victims of the plague has held on to a parcel of his humanity and when he falls in love with Julie, a beautiful survivor, he steps back unsteadily onto the road of some form of normalcy. With a host of new characters, Marion delves deeper into the darkness of the new world order and moves quite deliberately into adult territory, with a sense of dread equal to Justin Cronin's Passage series, which is no mean compliment. Gripping, poignant, toxically atmospheric and with the power to break your heart as you take each character to your heart with a sense of foreboding as to their fate in this terrible world they live in. Roll on the next volume! ~ Maxim Jakubowski
R is recovering from death. He's learning how to read, how to speak, maybe even how to love. He can almost imagine a future with Julie, this girl who restarted his heart - building a new world from the ashes of the old one. And then helicopters appear on the horizon. A mysterious army is coming to restore order, to bring back the good old days of stability and control and the strong eating the weak. These grinning strangers are more than they seem. The plague has many hosts, and some are far more terrifying than the Dead. With their home in the grip of madmen, R and Julie plunge into the wastelands of America in search of answers. But there are some answers R doesn't want to find. A past life, an old shadow, crawling up from the basement. In this long-anticipated new chapter of the Warm Bodies series, Isaac Marion expands the scope of a powerfully simple story: a dead man's search for life in all its bloody rawness.
Isaac Marion grew up in the mossy depths of the Pacific Northwest, USA, where he worked as a heating installer, a security guard, and a visitation supervisor for foster children before publishing his debut novel in 2010 - Warm Bodies became a New York Times bestseller and inspired a major Hollywood film adaptation. It has been translated into twenty-five languages worldwide. Isaac lives in Seattle with his cat and a beloved cactus, writing fiction and music and taking pictures of everything.
