Love and Decay: Revolution Books in Order
Part ofRachel Higginson Books in OrderSee the Love and Decay: Revolution books by Rachel Higginson in order, with short summaries, series background, and simple reading help.
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Love and Decay: Revolution books in publication order
13 books
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode One
by Rachel Higginson
2015
The sequel series returns to the zombie-ravaged world with a sharper focus on resistance. Episode one sets up new danger, old wounds, and the sense that survival is no longer enough.
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Two
by Rachel Higginson
2015
The second episode keeps the pressure high as the survivors face human enemies as deadly as the undead. Running is no longer the only option, and fighting back has its own cost.
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Eight
by Rachel Higginson
2016
Old wounds and fresh threats meet in another fast, tense chapter of the sequel series. Hope is still alive, but by now it comes sharpened by hard experience.
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Five
by Rachel Higginson
2016
Worn down but still moving, the survivors face another vicious turn in the fight. Reagan has to keep choosing forward, even when grief and fear are doing their best to stop her.
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Four
by Rachel Higginson
2016
Fresh danger and shrinking options drive this installment forward at full speed. The revolution is turning personal, and nobody gets to stay safely on the sidelines.
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Seven
by Rachel Higginson
2016
Human cruelty and zombie chaos close in from both sides as the rebellion grows more dangerous. The survivors have to act, even when action hurts almost as much as waiting.
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Six
by Rachel Higginson
2016
Episode six keeps the action tight and unforgiving as loyalty, retaliation, and survival slam together. In a broken world, even small victories draw blood.
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Three
by Rachel Higginson
2016
Plans start fraying fast in the third episode, where trust becomes harder to give and every decision lands harder than the last. In this world, no progress comes cleanly.
Love and Decay: Revolution, Volume One
by Rachel Higginson
2016
This opening collection gathers the first Revolution episodes as the survivors move from endurance to open resistance. The world is still full of zombies, but people remain the hardest threat to survive.
Love and Decay: Revolution, Volume Two
by Rachel Higginson
2016
This volume continues the Revolution arc as resistance hardens into something larger and more costly. The survivors are not just trying to live through the end of the world now, they are trying to change it.
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Nine
by Rachel Higginson
2017
The ninth episode pushes the cost of resistance even higher. Everyone is carrying more than they can easily survive, but standing still is not an option anymore.
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Ten
by Rachel Higginson
2017
As the conflict widens, leadership and sacrifice come under new pressure. Another hard turn in the fight forces the survivors to show exactly what they are willing to lose.
Love and Decay: Revolution: Episode Eleven
by Rachel Higginson
2019
This later installment raises the stakes again as the long struggle nears a breaking point. Nobody comes through a revolution unchanged, and the series never lets its characters forget that.
Love and Decay: Revolution books in chronological order

Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode One
by Rachel Higginson
2015Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 1
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Two
by Rachel Higginson
2015Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 2
Love and Decay: Revolution, Volume One
by Rachel Higginson
2016Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 3
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Three
by Rachel Higginson
2016Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 4
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Four
by Rachel Higginson
2016Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 5
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Five
by Rachel Higginson
2016Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 6
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Six
by Rachel Higginson
2016Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 7
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Seven
by Rachel Higginson
2016Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 8
Love and Decay: Revolution, Volume Two
by Rachel Higginson
2016Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 9
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Eight
by Rachel Higginson
2016Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 10
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Nine
by Rachel Higginson
2017Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 11
Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Ten
by Rachel Higginson
2017Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 12
Love and Decay: Revolution: Episode Eleven
by Rachel Higginson
2019Love and Decay: Revolution, Book 13
Series background & context
Love and Decay: Revolution grows out of the world of Love and Decay, but the mood shifts in an important way. The original series is largely about escape, endurance, and keeping a small circle of people alive. Revolution still has zombies and impossible odds, but it carries a more openly rebellious energy. The survivors are no longer only trying to outrun disaster. They are living with the question of whether they can push back against it.
That change gives the sequel series a different kind of tension. In the first books, the road itself is often the enemy. Here, the conflict feels more organized and more political. Human cruelty, power grabs, and the structures that rise after collapse matter just as much as the undead. The title is a clue. This is not just about staying alive another day. It is about what comes after survival, and who gets to decide the rules of the broken world.
The format helps a lot. Like the earlier books, these stories arrive in short, hard-driving episodes that tend to end with fresh danger. Higginson uses that rhythm well. Every installment feels urgent. There is very little wasted motion, which makes the whole series read fast even when the emotional stakes are heavy.
What does not change is the series' interest in loyalty. Love, family, grief, guilt, and trust still sit at the center of everything. Characters do not get to become abstract rebels or action figures. They carry history with them, and that history shapes how they fight. Someone is always trying to protect too much, forgive too late, or keep moving long after exhaustion should have won.
It is a harsher series in some ways.
Not because the world is more ruined, but because the choices are more deliberate. Once people stop running, they have to decide what they stand for, what they are willing to destroy, and what kind of future would actually make all the losses mean something. That gives Revolution a sharper edge than a simple sequel would have.
If you liked Love and Decay for its speed, cliffhangers, and emotional bonds, this continuation gives you more of that with an added layer of resistance. It is still intimate. It is still romantic. But it is also angrier, and that anger becomes part of the fuel.
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