The Prequel to Warm Bodies

The New Hunger (The Warm Bodies Series)

The much-anticipated prequel to zombie romance WARM BODIES, now a major film

We couldn’t wait to read this prequel – and we weren’t disappointed

I was hooked throughout this book and read it in one sitting, knowing that it was building to a somewhat shocking conclusion

Young adult fare with intelligence and very scary and often sad moments and will appeal equally to an older reader

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.

Discover the prequel to Isaac Marion’s cult zombie romance Warm Bodies 
 
 Julie Grigio drives with her parents through the crumbling wastelands of America – a nightmarish family road trip in search of a new home. 
 
A few hundred miles away, Nora Greene finds herself the reluctant, terrified guardian of her younger brother when her parents abandon them in the not-quite-empty ruins of Seattle. 
 
In the darkness of a forest, a dead man in a red tie opens his eyes. With no memory of who or what he is, he must unravel the grim mystery of his existence - right after he learns how to think, how to walk, and how to satisfy the monster howling in his belly... 
 
Two warped families and a lonely monster. Unknown to any of them, their paths are set to cross in a startling encounter that will change the course of their lives – or deaths – forever.

(The Warm Bodies Series)

Warm Bodies

Now a major motion picture starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich.

I never thought I could care so passionately for a zombie. Isaac Marion has created the most unexpected romantic lead I've ever encountered, and rewritten the entire concept of what it means to be a zombie in the process. This story stayed with me long after I finished reading it. I eagerly await the next book by Isaac Marion

A mesmerising evolution of a classic contemporary myth

Warm Bodies is a strange and unexpected treat. R is the thinking woman's zombie - though somewhat grey-skinned and monosyllabic, he could be the perfect boyfriend, if he could manage to refrain from eating you. This is a wonderful book, elegantly written, touching and fun, as delightful as a mouthful of fresh brains

A disarming writer, ruefully humorous, knowingly cinematic in scope. This is a slacker-zombie novel with a heart

Warm Bodies is a terrific book - a compelling literary fantasy which is also a strange and affecting pop-culture parable

Nick Harkaway, author of The Gone-Away World

Sweet and darkly witty, and, in R, offers a laconically charming hero... Set against the backdrop of this grim world, the life-and-death-changing love affair that develops is wryly playful, cinematic and ultimately moving - through the lost lives of the dead we are able relish life in all its messy, dishevelled gory glory

Has there been a more sympathetic monster since Frankenstein's?

So sexy it makes Twilight look anaemic

A starry-eyed, sweetly comic story about the humanising power of love, for this is Romeo and Juliet...with zombies

One of the most imaginative love stories we've read in years - we absolutely loved it!

The problems of Isaac Marion's star-crossed lovers make the Montague-Capulet relationship seem easy. When your new suitor ate your old boyfriend's brain, trust issues are unavoidable... Has there been a more sympathetic monster since Frankenstein's?

Beautifully written and wonderfully evocative

You'll love this book… A haunting love story that brings hope humanity can survive just about anything – even death

'R' is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead. 
 
Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows - warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape. For reasons he can't understand, R chooses to save Julie instead of eating her, and a tense yet strangely tender relationship begins. 
 
This has never happened before. It breaks the rules and defies logic, but R is no longer content with life in the grave. He wants to breathe again, he wants to live, and Julie wants to help him. But their grim, rotting world won't be changed without a fight...

Isaac Marion

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. 
 
 
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