 book review by bethany anderson warm bodies by isaac marion zombies are great i love zombie horror films and the walking dead is the best thing going right now so as soon as i heard about warm bodies  i knew i had to read it more so because it s zombies on the flip side r is a zombie a first person narrator and an allthinking zombie he doesn t know how it happened and he doesn t remember his name but he does know that he doesn t like this kind of living on a foraging mission to find some living food he kills a young man and eats part of his brain the next thing he does is save a human girl julie the result is a relationship without precedent as the two try to figure out a way to coexist in a world that is falling apart meanwhile r seems to be connecting with the soul of the young man whose brain he has eaten and so becomes a zombie both inwardly and outwardly conflicted i didn t think it could happen but apparently it is possible to be attracted to a zombie r is thoughtful and charming and the reader is easily pulled into his nostalgia for living life his passion and desire for all his good intentions is heartwarming but being a zombie he s still distanced from complete human life watching r change and grow through the book was exciting and nerveracking i wanted so badly for him to cope and to be understood julie the main human focus of the novel annoyed me at first initially i couldn t put my finger on it but i really think that it s because i was so close to r and his world view that i was frustrated when julie didn t understand him and that she wasn t treating him the way he deserved to be treated that s quite a testament to an author to have a reader so keen on a protagonist especially so early in the novel she grew on me though and the difference between her personality and r s was often nothing short of adorable isaac marion has created a modern fairytale a whatif scenario in a world that might not be too far off our own warm bodies is written like marion had a great time writing it and it often feels like he enjoyed creating r s story as much as i enjoyed reading it zombies decay and death and yet i closed the book with the fuzziest contentment issue 1 bethany anderson 