Madelyn Blake asked Isaac Marion:

Hi! I loved warm bodies and I about screamed when I learned you were writing a sequel (because the ending seemed a bit final so I assumed it would be a standalone) And I was just wondering, are we going to still see some boneys in The Burning World? I apologize if I missed something in Warm Bodies but I really loved the idea of having kind of evolved zombies and I just wanted to know if I should expect them!

Isaac Marion It's funny, the ending is polarizing that way. Some people say the ending seemed final and they didn't expect a sequel, while others say it felt like a cliffhanger and they wanted to know what happens next. I can see it both ways. I wrote Warm Bodies as a standalone with an "implied sequel." The ending teases the possibilities of what will come next, but at the time it never occurred to me that I'd actually be "allowed" to write a whole series. Getting one thing published seemed plenty ambitious at the time, but once I got over my "first novel" fears and realized people cared about this story, I knew I had to finish it.

As for your question: oh yes, we're going to see some Boneys. And other, more disturbing incarnations of the plague.

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