Dearly Departed

Lia Habel

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Published by Doubleday Childrens, part of Random House Children's Publishers UK

Format: Paperback

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EAN: 9780857530004
Published: 29 Sep 2011

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A pacy, bloodthirsty, hugely entertaining teen zombie novel with an unconventional but tender love story at its heart.

From the ruins of a cataclysmic ice-age a new society has emerged, based on Victorian customs. Nora Dearly, a feisty teenage girl and apparent orphan, leaves her exclusive boarding school for the holidays to return home - only to be dragged into the night by the living dead.
Luckily for her, this particular crack unit of zombies are good guys - sent to protect her from the real nasties roaming the countryside and zeroing in on major cities to swell their ranks. Nora must find a way to defeat the evil undead with help from Bram, a noble, sweet and surprisingly hot zombie boy for whom she starts to fall...

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What the critics say

A romance between a guy who will rot away in the end and a girl who knows it. Yes I can’t see a future, can you? But romance will always conquer and when the book ends I still not know how it ever will work. But there are more books to come and I am intrigued.
- http://www.serendipityreviews.co.uk/2011/10/dearly-departed-by-lia-habel-guest.html

Lia Habel has managed the impossible and I have to admit to having a slight (OK possibly more than slight!) crush on a zombie! The story is action packed with plenty of twists and turns that keep you gripped to the pages and I have to mention how much I loved Nora's friend Pam (just wait until you see what she can do with a parasol!). The romance is sweet and believable but is by no means the main focus of the story and you'd be missing out on a treat if you don't give it a try.
- http://www.feelingfictional.com/2011/09/arc-review-dearly-departed-lia-habel.html