John Ajvide Lindqvist

Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up... What do they want? What everybody wants: to come home. Handling the Undead is a story about our greatest fear and about a love that defies death. Following his success with Let the Right One In, this novel too has been a bestseller in his native Sweden

Handling the Undead

not as good as let the right one in but very compelling. 

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Kayleigh hughes

I love Lindqvist's ability to take a genre or a monster that has been done to death and transform it into something we haven't seen before.  Let the Right One In  excelled and I think perhaps set a benchmark so high Lindqvist will always struggle to reach it. Handling the Undead was on track, it took the zombie and refused to follow the rules of the sub-genre but I finished it feeling a little...blah. There were parts of this book that I thought were stupendous and Lindqvist's writing style was certainly still at a high quality but I felt like it missed a bit of the heart that was in Let the Right One In and just fell short. I can't quite put my finger on it, perhaps it was a combination of small faults that just amounted to too much, or perhaps it was because I had only read Let the Right One In 6 months earlier. I think I'll have to give it a second read before I can make any final conclusions.

Judy Hudgins

The book started off pretty promising. The newly dead returned to live, leaving their graves and trying to go home. As they were not agressive, they were labeled 'reliving'. However, once you get through the initial set up, the author starts on following how two separate families are handling this bizarre situation. Oh, and there is some mental telpathy which emerges between the reliving and the living. The book is ok. But is seemed to drag on and on. The premise and conclusion was interesting, but the middle of the book dragged and dragged. I couldn't put it down simply because I need to know how it ended.

In the city morgue, the dead are waking up... What do they want? What everybody wants: to come home 'Reminiscent of Stephen King at his best. Best read by sunlight' Independent on Sunday Something peculiar is happening. Stockholm is enduring a heatwave, electrical appliances cannot be switched off and everyone has a blinding headache. Then the terrible news breaks - in the city morgue, the dead are waking... David always knew his wife was far too good for him. But he never knew how lost he'd be without her until tonight when her car hit an elk. Now she's gone and he's alone. But when he goes to identify her body, she begins to move. It's terrifying, but it gives David a strange kind of hope. Across the city, grieving families find themselves able to see their loved-ones one last time. But are these creatures really them? How long can this last? And what does it all mean?

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Chrystal Giordano

'Reminiscent of Stephen King at his best. Best read by sunlight' Independent on Sunday Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up. What do they want? What everybody wants: to come home.

Scordatura

Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up .... What do they want? What everybody wants: to come home.

Handling the Undead

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