Warm Bodies

Have you recently seen the movie Warm bodies? I have not read it but I know it came out in 2013. It’s a zombie romance-comedy movie about well a zombie falling in love with a living girl. But did you know it was a best-selling novel written by Isaac Marion. Because I had no idea it was a novel until recently and I finished reading the book a week or two weeks maybe. But anyway I really liked the book and I was thinking about watching the movie even though seeing the trailers that the movie might not follow the book exactly. But I think I would still like the movie if it still had the basic plot in the book.

In the book the zombie R who has been dead for some time is like any zombie. He grunts and eats brains like any other, except he is in much better condition than his other zombiefied companions. So one day he was abnormally hungry and so he and a smaller group of other zombies went out to hunt. They find a group of humans and devour them. R eats this human guy named Perry but something strange happens when R eats Perry. Normally when a zombie eats a human they get brief flashes of that humans life that fulfills the zombies own miserable existence. But when R ate Perry he had a full-out flashback of Perry’s life and about Perry’s Girlfriend Julie and his feelings towards her. In that moment R, for the first time in his undead life he felt alive. So now him being slightly less dead and eventually falling in love with Julie it’s pretty like any love story. Well except that he is dead and ate her last boyfriend it’s pretty much like any love story.

A thing that I noticed is that in the movie, Julie didn't mind that R ate her boyfriend who also is in fact her ex-boyfriend. But in the book Perry was actually still her current boyfriend. Another thing was that Julie in the book didn't exactly know that R ate her boyfriend which made things kind of awkward for R.

After reading this book I wanted to find something that had zombies in it but not any kind of zombies. I wanted to find ones that would scare me senseless. But it has to be a novel or book series because I have absolutely no tolerance to any kind of horror movies. But luckily I did find one and perhaps I’ll do a blog on it. I just hope that this new book wont scare me too much.