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Atria Books, April 2011
Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1439192316
ISBN-13: 9781439192313
Description
R is a young man with an existential crisis--he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse, and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades, but he craves something more than blood and brains. He can speak just a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. He has no memories, noidentity, and no pulse, but he has dreams.
After experiencing a teenage boy's memories while consuming his brain, R makes an unexpected choice that begins a tense, awkward, and stragely sweet relationship with the victim's human girlfriend. Julie is a blast of color in the otherwise dreary and gray landscape that surrounds R. His decision to protect her will transform not only R, but his fellow Dead, and perhaps their whole lifeless world.
Scary, funny, and surprisingly poignant, Warm Bodies is about being alive, being dead, and the blurry line in between.
After experiencing a teenage boy's memories while consuming his brain, R makes an unexpected choice that begins a tense, awkward, and stragely sweet relationship with the victim's human girlfriend. Julie is a blast of color in the otherwise dreary and gray landscape that surrounds R. His decision to protect her will transform not only R, but his fellow Dead, and perhaps their whole lifeless world.
Scary, funny, and surprisingly poignant, Warm Bodies is about being alive, being dead, and the blurry line in between.
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Browse Inside Warm Bodies"I never thought I could care so passionately for a zombie. Isaac Marion has created the most unexpected romantic lead I've ever encountered, and rewritten the entire concept of what it means to be a zombie in the process. This story stayed with me long after I was done reading it. I eagerly await the next book by Isaac Marion."
-- Stephenie Meyer, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of the Twilight series
“Warm Bodies is a strange and unexpected treat. This is a wonderful book, elegantly written, touching and fun, as delightful as a mouthful of fresh brains.”
-- Audrey Niffenegger, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife
“Isaac Marion has a great new voice that hooks you from page one and accomplishes the impossible: it makes you care about young zombie love. Warm Bodies is a terrific read.”
-- Josh Bazell, author of New York Times bestseller Beat the Reaper
"Has there been a more sympathetic monster since Frankenstein's?"
-- The Financial Times
“The words Marion uses to describe his grim near-future are silken smooth. They slip through the mind's grasp easily, pleasurably, leaving hardly a hint of themselves in the images they evoke.”
-- The Seattle Times
“In elegant, evocative prose, Marion has fashioned the world’s most unlikely romance in a story that is by turns harrowing, poignant, and tender. At the last, the reader is reminded that we are all ultimately human, whether living or dead. Utterly charming.”
-- Library Journal, starred review
Io9, November 2, 2011
...re kind of appalled/enthralled by 50/50 director Jonathan Levine's new zombie romance movie. Based on the novel Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion, it's about a young zombie boy in love with a girl, and how that changes the post-apocalyptic hell ...
Strongsville Patch, October 29, 2011
...her more than just protection. This is a fun paranormal romance short story collection for the Halloween season. Warm Bodies: a Novel By Isaac Marion, Oct. 2011, 241 pages. A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in love ...
Examiner.com, October 16, 2011
...Zombie novels are growing in popularity among both the teen and adult crowds. Isaac Marion’s debut novel Warm Bodies adds to the growing trend, but with a twist used sparingly in the past: This one’s ...
WWeek, October 5, 2011
...full of shifting dark masses, leaves that hissed as the wind moved through them, and darting black shadows.” Isaac Marion Marion’s first novel, Warm Bodies, is about a zombie who falls in love with a living girl. A film adaptation ...
Paste Magazine, April 26, 2011
...flaws give them a realness and depth that have the reader caring deeply despite the book’s brevity. Warm Bodies’ zombie tropes—moaning hordes of the undead, brain-eating, and zombies getting blown to bits—are almost incidental. This ...
Seattle Weekly, April 22, 2011
...A good friend of mine, , just published his first novel, and now I am going to pimp it. Warm Bodies (Atria, $24) chronicles an ill-fated romance between a teenage girl and an undead boy. Stephenie Meyer is already a vigorous supporter of ...
Blogcritics.org, April 9, 2011
...I shouldn't be surprised that one has shown up in the form of a zombie book. Newcomer Isaac Marion's Warm Bodies has become one of my favorite reads so far in 2011. Yes, it is a story about zombies, but it is highly both inventive and ...
