Word Out 2014

The book Warm Bodies written by Isaac Marion is a romance, action, comedy, and fictional. Warm Bodies describes the everyday life of an average man called 'R'. Sadly, he does not remember the rest of his name, for he is a rotting zombie.

 

It has been at least ten years since humans have acknowledged that the dead come back to life as their predators, hunting for their brains, and quenching their thirst. As R tries his best not to let his zombie instincts take over him, he meets Julie, a bold, living, clever teenager, while hunting. R is one of the first of his kind to overcome his urge to devour humans. R saves Julie's life and falls in love with her while doing so, but he regrets it later on, accepting the fact that a relationship between dead and living will never work. However, R refuses to give up and continues to pursue Julie, the two work side by side to revert the zombie "curse" and stop the "plague." As the story unravels, R starts to hear voices in his head. As the voices start to interfere with his work, he begins to realize the identity of the voices are people he'd once eaten. 

 

I found the story to be very intriguing with its different point of view. Zombies are usually the monster, or the villain of most plot lines, for example, The Walking Dead. Warm Bodies shows how hope and perseverance can bring out the solutions to many problems. I would recommend this book to teen readers, because the book contains violence, and few mature themes not suitable for younger readers.