Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Book Review: Warm Bodies (Steph)

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion


 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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