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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.

Traduction personnelle :

Être en vie est difficile. Être humain est encore plus difficile. Mais depuis son récent retour de la mort, R fait des progrès. Il apprend à lire, à parler, peut-être même à aimer et la population des morts-vivants de la ville montre des signes de vie. R peut presque imaginer un avenir avec Julie, cette jeune fille qui a redémarré son cœur et ainsi reconstruire un nouveau monde sur les cendres de l'ancien.

Et puis, des hélicoptères apparaissent à l'horizon. Quelqu'un vient pour rétablir l'ordre. Pour faire taire tout ce bruit. Pour remettre les choses tels qu'elles l'étaient, les bons vieux jours de stabilité et de contrôle, et le fort mangeant le faible. La Peste est ancienne et ambitieuse, et la Mort est sa seule arme.

Comment combattre lorsque l'ennemie est en tout le monde ? Le monde peut-il changer ? Avec leur refuge envahie par des fous, R, Julie, et leur groupe de réfugiés loqueteux, plongent dans les terres délabrés de l'Amérique d'un autre monde à la recherche de réponses. Mais il ya des réponses que R ne veux pas savoir. Une vie passée, une vieille ombre, rampant du sous-sol...

Originale :

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...

Mot de l'auteur :

"I'm about 70% of the way through writing it and expect to finish in early 2015. It's going to be a much bigger book (it's already 60 pages longer than WARM BODIES) and a much bigger story. I'm not ready to say much about the plot yet, but here are a few questions that I've been asking myself since I wrote WARM BODIES' last page:

What will life be like for R as a new human? How will he fit into society? How will such an alienated social infant handle a romantic relationship? Will he remember his past, and what will that do to the new person he's trying to become?

What happens to the Dead after the "cure" begins to spread? What is the cure? What are the Dead and why do they exist? What else exists? Just how weird has the world become if it's allowing mythical undead monsters to become real? How is humanity dealing with this new reality, and how will bad people exploit it to regain power and rebuild the old status quo?

And most importantly: how do R and Julie spread the revolution they started? Can something as old and stubborn as human nature be challenged? If given a blank page, can we rewrite ourselves? Can the world change?"

The author says:

I'm about a third of the way through writing it and hope to finish by the end of 2014. I'm not ready to say much about the story yet, but a few comments to dispel a few notions:

The plague is not "cured" and R is not fully human yet. The transition will be difficult, the world is still unexplored and full of nightmares, and R has a much larger role to play than just getting his own heart to beat.

R and Julie's relationship is not going to be easy, for obvious reasons and also much less obvious ones. They both have very dark pasts, and R's is coming back for him.

The Boneys might be in remission, but they were just angry skeletons. The real threat is the force that fueled them, and what happens when it gets smart.

"I wrote Warm Bodies having only the faintest hope that it would ever see publication. I never dreamed that I'd have the opportunity to continue the story in another book, so I tried to make it self-contained. But in my head, I still went ahead and created a big, complex world full of history and mystery and people and monsters and strange things in-between, all moving toward something only hinted at in Warm Bodies' brisk 256 pages. Those pages end with hope on the horizon, but the world that R, Julie, M, Nora, Rosso, and Perry inhabit is still very dark, very wild, and not even close to "saved."

I love that world. I love those people, and I want to show you what happens to them. So I'm writing another book about them. Another book-and-a-half, actually...but I'll explain that later. For now, just trust that I have a story to tell and a reason to tell it, and I'll try my best not to ruin everything."

-Isaac Marion @burningbuilding.blogspot.com

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