Warm Bodies
Warm Bodies #1
Isaac Marion
October 28th, 2010
Vintage
240 pages
'R' is a zombie. He has no name, no memories and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.
Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows - warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape. For reasons he can't understand, R chooses to save Julie instead of eating her, and a tense yet strangely tender relationship begins.
This has never happened before. It breaks the rules and defies logic, but R is no longer content with life in the grave. He wants to breathe again, he wants to live, and Julie wants to help him. But their grim, rotting world won't be changed without a fight...
I
give this book a 3.5 and round up. This book is about R a Zomibie who
falls in love with Julie a human. I love zombie books but this book
isn't really about zombies. It is about death and finding something
worth living for. In that, as I saw someone write, you could take out
zombies out of the book and insert another undead creature such as
vampires or ghost and the heart of the story would still hold true. I
wasn't in love with this book and after I finished the audiobook I
didn't want to sing its praises from the roof tops. Warm Bodies was a
good story about what it means to live and love and make yourself feel
mattered. I think the reason people like zombie culture so much these
days is that we all feel like a zombie sometimes where nothing matters
and we are all cogs on a wheel just going through the motions. The
things I didn't like about the book is that I thought R waxed on a
little too much and sometimes it felt like I was listening to a hippster
Existentionlism crisis. Still I liked this book and all it's poetic
glory. The narrator's voice was good and reminded me of A Christmas
Story.
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