Warm Bodies - Book Review

Warm bodies is set long after the initial infection began, the dead have risen and overrun the civilized world. The remaining shreds of humanity huddle in stadium fortresses trying to regain their world block by block. We are introduced to R, the main protagonist of the book. R does not know how long he has been dead or why he is still able to function, all be it in a reduced capacity, and it is this premise that leads the book throughout. Rather then focus on the desperate survival of the last of the living Isaac Marion lets us inside the world of the zombies. The narative is mostly presented to us through the inner monologue of R. We hear of how the zombies function as a society, what they do between feeding on humans and even how they create families and school the younger zombies in hunting. The younger zombies (younger in age when turned in to the undead) are shown a captured human and taught how to attack them, where the most vulnerable areas of flesh are, this scene is then seen later as the survivors bring out a captured zombie and attempt to teach the same to their children. Bing as they were once us the parallel lives being lived on either side of the conflict caused me to reconsider how I view the undead and made me look back at other zombie novels and movies and imagine the same happening off screen during those. R himself is doomed to frustration, he has a rich and insightful inner monologue that is almost impossible for him to articulate verbally, as at the start of the book his consecutive spoken syllable record is three however all this is about to change. During a trip to the city to feed, R and his companion M stumble across Juile. R unfortunately has just devoured Julies boyfriend but in eating his brains R has lived this life and knows Juile just as he did. This is where I need to stop the review as to divulge more that this would be unfair, as I think this is something you need to discover for yourself. I found this to be one of the most compelling and enjoyable books I have read in this genre for quite some time and that enjoyment could be found by fans of the Zombie genre and those for whom this is not their usual source of entertainment. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. And urge to read it as son as possible.

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Coming soon in Book reviews - Feed, The zombie Autopsies and Zombies a record of the year of infection.