Book Review: Warm Bodies

What is it with me and reading books with questionable titles?

Anyway, the Zombie craze soldiers on. I'm sure many have noticed a recent number of both movies and books dealing with the subject (I'll put a list at the bottom of this for good measure, in case you didn't notice). Warm Bodies, by Isaac Marion, takes the zombie story in a new direction: a zombie in love. Not only that, but the book is written from the perspective of the zombie, R, which puts the whole thing into perspective. They may be dead, but they do have feelings and needs.

The basic plot of the story is that while on a routine feeding trip, R decides that instead of eating Julie, to save her and keep her safe. R's friend M (the Zombies can't really remember a lot, but some of them can remember tidbits, and some can even speak) at first doesn't think this is a good idea. Through twists and turns we follow these two young lovers in their quest to unite two families... er... groups of individuals (people isn't really an appropriate word when dealing with the undead) who are otherwise at war with each other. Throw in Julie's best friend Nora, and a an attack on a human named Trevor and you might start to see some similarities between this story and another, more famous one (1000 Internet points for whomever can post which story I'm talking about first).

I don't like revealing much more, but if you like zombies and seeing new things done with old ideas (and I mean two old ideas here) then this is definitely well worth your time. I could barely put it down.

In my search for a bit more info on the book, I also learned that it will be made into a movie, opening in 2013. What can you do? This usually happens to good (and often not-so-good) books.

As promised, here is a list of some of the better quality zombie (or similar) movies of the past few years. It's short, but I liked these ones in particular. Post any other ones that you thought were good.

Books:

• World War Z, Max Brooks (Also going to be a movie in 2013 starring Brad Pitt)
• Zone One, Colson Whitehead

Movies and TV Shows

• Zombieland
• The Walking Dead (TV)
• 28 Days Later
• Dawn of the Dead
• Shaun of the Dead