Collection Journal’s Must-Have Springtime Books, Editors’ Picks 2017

“An exciting coast-to-coast journey.” -The Seattle Instances

“A richly dreamed philosophical exploration.” -Bellingham Herald

“Exciting action, interesting characters, epic range.” -Booklist (starred review)

“Poignant and poetic…brings zombie lit back again from the dead.” -The Stranger

THE BRAND NEW York Times bestseller Warm Physiques captured hearts worldwide in twenty-five languages, inspiring a major film and a cult fandom. Now R the about The Burning up Globe: A Warm Bodies Book reluctant zombie proceeds his journey with this much-anticipated sequel.

Becoming alive is hard. Becoming human is definitely harder. But since his latest recovery from death, R is making progress. He’s learning how to read, how exactly to speak, probably even how exactly to love, and the city’s undead population is showing indications of existence. R can almost imagine a future with Julie, this lady who restarted his heart-building a new world in the ashes from the old one.

And then helicopters appear on the horizon. Someone is arriving at restore order. To silence all this noise. To come back things to the way they were, the good days of the past of stability and control and the strong eating the vulnerable. The plague is historic and ambitious, as well as the Dead were by no means its only weapon.

How will you battle an enemy that’s in everyone? Can the world ever really switch? With their home overrun by madmen, R, Julie, and their ragged band of refugees plunge into the otherworldly wastelands of America in search of answers. But there are a few answers R doesn’t need to find. A past lifestyle, an old darkness, crawling up from your basement.