Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, #1)

by Isaac Marion

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A feel good Zombie book? Yes.

I don't know what else I can say about this story that hasn't already been said. Warm Bodies is such a unique telling of a classic, with a new spin on zombies, that it is like nothing you've read before.

R is a zombie. He eats brains, and whatever other flesh he can get to. But brains are his favorite, because for the few moments while he is eating, he is able to remember what it is like to be alive, through the poor person he is eating's memories. Things really change for him when he makes a knee-jerk reaction and saves a girl, Julie, and brings her home.

I found R to be very sweet, the whole living dead thing notwithstanding. Personally, I didn't know how I was going to feel about a zombie romance, and am happy to report I was pleasantly surprised. I think that had a lot to do with how Marion had the romance progress, SLOW. I mean almost too slow for many stories, but it was perfect for this story.

If you haven't read this book yet, and I don't know why you wouldn't, pick it up. But know, it is still a zombie book. There is some gore and blood and brains. But there is also beauty and love.