Back in 2010, author Isaac Marion introduced readers to a romance between a human and a zombie in Warm Bodies, which was adapted for the big screen in 2013, and soon the apocalyptic love story of R and Julie will continue in The Burning World.
A sequel to Warm Bodies, Marion's new novel The Burning World will be released by Atria Books on February 7th, 2017. We'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further details, but in the meantime, we have the official synopsis and a look at the cover art:
Synopsis: "Being alive is hard. Being human is harder. But since his recent recovery from death, R is making progress. He’s learning how to read, how to speak, maybe even how to love, and the city’s undead population is showing signs of life. R 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. Someone is coming to restore order. To silence all this noise. To return things to the way they were, the good old days of stability and control and the strong eating the weak. The plague is ancient and ambitious, and the Dead were never its only weapon.
How do you fight an enemy that’s in everyone? Can the world ever really change? With their home overrun by madmen, R, Julie, and their ragged group of refugees plunge into the otherworldly 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Isaac Marion grew up in the mossy depths of the Pacific Northwest, 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 #5 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. Visit IsaacMarion.com for more on these endeavors.
THE BURNING WORLD
by Isaac Marion
Emily Bestler Books / Atria Books | On-sale: February 7, 2017 | ISBN: 9781476799711, $27.00 | 512 pages
eBook: 9781476799735, $9.99; www.isaacmarionbooks.com"
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