Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, #1)

English language

Published March 25, 2010

ISBN:
9780099549345

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3 stars (1 review)

Warm Bodies is a novel by author Isaac Marion. The book was described as a "zombie romance" by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and makes allusions to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The author, based in Seattle, originally wrote a short story titled "I Am a Zombie Filled with Love". Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, acquired the publishing rights to the full novel in early 2010.

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3 stars

Started off promising. I liked R. Never really got attached to Julie. I felt like Julie was her problems... I didn't get a good sense of character past the fact that she is a totured soul kinda thing...
I guess the stakes were high... I mean, it was a matter of R and the other zombies getting their lives back. Except that R getting his back was kind of inevitable as soon as he met Julie. Yes, I think that's it... it was a "this is a big deal because we're saving the WORLD!" kind of plot, whereas I want to be worried for the MC's. I wasn't. Very rarely did I feel I had anything to worry about with them. They didn't get involved in the fighting. Lives, loves and general well-being never really felt like they were on the brink of being lost. Sometimes we were told there …