Warm Bodies
Isaac Marion
‘The zombie novel with a heart', Guardian
Now a major motion picture starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich, Warm Bodies is the ultimate zombie read this Halloween.
'R' is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.
Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows - warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape. For reasons he can't understand, R chooses to save Julie instead of eating her, and a tense yet strangely tender relationship begins.
This has never happened before. It breaks the rules and defies logic, but R is no longer content with life in the grave. He wants to breathe again, he wants to live, and Julie wants to help him. But their grim, rotting world won't be changed without a fight...
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Reviews for Warm Bodies
STEPHENIE MEYER A mesmerising evolution of a classic contemporary myth
Simon Pegg Warm Bodies is a strange and unexpected treat. R is the thinking woman's zombie - though somewhat grey-skinned and monosyllabic, he could be the perfect boyfriend, if he could manage to refrain from eating you. This is a wonderful book, elegantly written, touching and fun, as delightful as a mouthful of fresh brains
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER A disarming writer, ruefully humorous, knowingly cinematic in scope. This is a slacker-zombie novel with a heart
Guardian
Warm Bodies is a terrific book - a compelling literary fantasy which is also a strange and affecting pop-culture parable
Nick Harkaway, author of The Gone-Away World Sweet and darkly witty, and, in R, offers a laconically charming hero... Set against the backdrop of this grim world, the life-and-death-changing love affair that develops is wryly playful, cinematic and ultimately moving - through the lost lives of the dead we are able relish life in all its messy, dishevelled gory glory
Time Out
Has there been a more sympathetic monster since Frankenstein's?
Financial Times
Enormous fun
Marie Claire
So sexy it makes Twilight look anaemic
News of the World
A starry-eyed, sweetly comic story about the humanising power of love, for this is Romeo and Juliet...with zombies
The Bookseller