4 out of 5 thumbs up
R is a zombie who lives at the airport.
He likes to ride the escalator, listen to vinyl records and has a
surprisingly advanced vocabulary, for a zombie.
He remembers nothing from his past life including his name, where he was
from, what he was like, or how long ago he died (or became un-dead). He eats the Living, an aspect of his new life
he’s not proud of. On a hunting trip, R meets Julie, the girlfriend of a young
man he had just finished devouring, and decides to spare her and keep her
safe. The bizarre relationship that
blossoms between the two starts a revolution that will change the course of
humanity (and zombie-anity).
Warm Bodies is an entertaining read which takes you into the
world after the zombie apocalypse and into the culture of the corpses themselves. Though the ending is a tad predictable, the journey that you take
through the mind of R is engaging and as a result, you begin to have feelings
for this Dead character, besides the normal zombie reaction of needing to shoot
him in the face. This is a zombie book,
after all, so there is some gore, and the language is pretty bad and the main
characters (teens) drink kind of a lot, but I guess you could blame that on
zombies eating all the mothers of the characters, so there’s no one left to
chastise them when they have a potty mouth.
They also probably figure, “hey, it’s the end of the world…” The movie
based on this book is hits theaters February 1, 2013 -and I’ll probably go see
it.
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