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Average rating3.8
R is having a no-life crisis -- he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he'd rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization. And then he meets a girl. First as his captive, then his reluctant house guest, Julie is a blast of living color in R's gray landscape, and something inside him begins to bloom. He doesn't want to eat this girl -- although she looks delicious -- he wants to protect her. But their unlikely bond will cause ripples they can't imagine, and their hopeless world won't change without a fight. - Publisher.
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3 primary books4 released booksWarm Bodies is a 4-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Isaac Marion.
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Its really good and loved this book. I'm glad maggie stiefvater recomended it
loved R how he was the narrator and male protagonist. the story is from a zombie's pov and loved it because never read a story over zombies not as monsters but as social and what happining in there being,beings
Marion???s characters are far from perfect. Their imperfections give them a realness This is one zombie story that won???t give you nightmares. It leaves you instead thinking about that thing called life, there zombies not living and cheering for a monster.
His journey begins with no memory only a hunger for the flesh of survivors and the rare feelings that come as he feeds on the energy, emotion and memory trapped inside that what zombies long for the human brain. But a particular meal,this meal, the mind of a once-idealist, now cynical young man named Perry, awakens something within R. He makes the first moral choice of his undeath and saves Perry???s girlfriend Julie.
one of my fav scenes is where R is in the camp or place were the human's live , R put make up on to fool the guards and they believed he was alive and his clan were acting like they were chasing him, R drank liquor with Julie, and needs to go to the toilet because he 's gotta pee, he is thinking was happening, this has not happened before
I started reading this book around 3 or 4 in the morning. I wasn't expecting to like it all that much. But I did. It may have been vulgar and ridiculous at some moments (which explains the 3 stars), but I enjoyed Marion's take on the zombie apocalypse. I also think that it's more than just the zombie apocalypse, one could also argue that it is about a man who is “dead” inside and, after he meets a girl, starts to change and experience hope and happiness. One could also argue it's about a man whose views change about a certain issue... Going from “dead” to living and positive. I really enjoyed the book and want to see the movie now.
I would've liked it better if I didn't read it in audiobook form