Title: Warm Bodies
Series: Warm Bodies 1#
Author: Isaac Marion
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
Source: Brought
Published: Oct 28th 2010 by Random House Vintage
Summery: '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...
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”
Why I read this book
Spotted this book in the library. . . I had watched and enjoyed the movie, so I picked it up .
My thoughts
Warm Bodies is a really unique take on a post-apocalyptic zombie novel . Commonly with zombie
novels we are placed in a head of the survivor, we see the struggles and trials they go though, but not with Warm Bodies. Nope, in this book were placed in the mind of the zombie, we get to experience all
his thoughts and feelings. . . It was really strange to look at a brain eating zombie and go. . . “Wow, I really like this guy” But, that is exactly what ended up happening with the main character R in this book.
Isaac Marion is an brilliant writer…Seriously guys, this book was jam packed full of witty inner musing and quotable character dialogue. I loved the way Isaac Marion did a fantastic job at making the humour in this book really. . . dry (Which is my favourite kind of funny). The tone that was set throughout this book is really hard to explain, there was a greyness throughout that really help set the pacing of the story.
The female protagonist was strong and interesting, she could really kick some ass. The one thing that I thought let the book down a little was the length, I think that Isaac should have made it just a little longer, to flesh out some of the story lines within.
Overall Impressions – Great
For a short and interesting read go check out Warm Bodies, this book really gives a completely new take on a zombie post apocalyptic story.
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