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►Book Review: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Book Review: Warm Bodies by Isaac MarionThe movie version of Warm Bodies was in cinemas about 2 weeks ago. And Nicholas Hoult is like the ideal R. :D Okayy, I would give this book a 4.5 stars rating. I really loved the way Isaac Marion told the story though a zombie's eyes. I mean, it's something fresh and different. I wasn't a fan of zombie stories (too much gore) but Warm Bodies was really a wonderful exception.  The world is slowly taken over by zombies that were once human. The zombies like any other, eat people's brains (um, I know. Ew.). Yeah, the story is told through R's perspective. Basically, in the book, Zombies can't remember much from their human lives. They lose their humanity and start rotting. On a hunting trip, R kills a boy named Perry and saves his girlfriend Julie from being eaten by others. R begins to hear Perry's voice in his mind. It's like a conscience thing. Day by day, R is changing. He looks and sounds almost human again. Julie believes that he is healing himself. With R's help, Julie returns to the Stadium (human civilisation). R sneaks in as well. Some romance going on, maybe? Julie seems almost comfortable with R. The book ends with R and Julie escaping the Stadium to spread the "cure" to zombies. The apoclaypse is ending.I love the storyline of the book. It gives me the feel like: when all seems dark, never give up hope because there's always a little light somewhere. Without darkness, there is no light. It was encouragement to me. :) I loved R's character. Isaac Marion did a good job in writing the thoughts of R. It gave him so much character and life, even as a zombie. I like how R, despite being a zombie, was able to question the ways of a zombie. He wasn't afraid to be different. R cares a lot for Julie. He risked himself against the Boneys just to send her back to her own kind and out of danger zone. R is by far, one of my favourite characters, besides Augustus and Daemon. Julie on the other hand was a bit puzzling. When her boyfriend Perry died brutally, it's like she got over him really quickly. I'm not sure if it was because she's a tough cookie, after experiencing so much loss in her life or, she was just unfeeling as a person. I decided to believe the former. I think Julie appears to be brave when in fact she's going through so much more than she can take. I thought M was a really cool character too. He's a freaking loyal friend of R, willing to die for him even. Wow, where can you find such friendship these days..? Julie's father was an example of how people change due to external factors. He was pressured by the urgency of protecting his family and his fellow men, so pressured that he lost himself in it. He became a distant, non-parently figure that Julie dislikes greatly. I think it relates really well to reality where people change under circumstances. I read up on this book and found out that Warm Bodies makes allusions on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. R for Romeo Julie for Juliet Perry for Paris M for Mercutio Hahah. :D I really recommend this book to all! Go read it!! My fav parts: “You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.” -Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies “There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.” -Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies “We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.” -Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies “What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature” -Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies -Sheryl Labels: Isaac Marion, Julie, R, Warm Bodies |
Past Reviews.
Aldous Huxley♥Brave New World Ally Condie ♥Matched Cassandra Clare ♥Clockwork Angel ♥Clockwork Princess Erin Morgenstern ♥The Night Circus Isaac Marion ♥Warm Bodies Jay Asher ♥Thirteen Reasons Why Jennifer Armentrout ♥Opal Jodi Picoult ♥My Sister's Keeper ♥Between the Lines John Green ♥The Fault In Our Stars Low Kay Hwa ♥A Singapore Love Story Rainbow Rowell ♥Fangirl Ransom Riggs ♥Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Richelle Mead ♥Bloodlines ♥The Indigo Spell Stephenie Meyer ♥Twilight ♥The Host Veronica Roth ♥Divergent |