Warm Bodies
"Instead of guts and violence, Warm Bodies emphasizes raw emotion and hope. As an alternative of watching a downward spiral into zombie-ism, Marion focuses on an ascending battle to regain a previous existence. The hero of Warm Bodies, R, is a zombie in the lesser stages of decay, who still has the stirrings of feelings, memories, and life buried in him somewhere just beyond his grasp. It is by getting to know R that the novel begins.
R is R because his name has been lost… somewhere between death and undeath, most facts like names have simply slipped away. Memories, feelings, and vocabulary are also among the casualties. They appear in tiny, fleeting glimpses from time to time, serving as reminders of life before death that leave R feeling frustrated. R is rather verbose for his species, and when speaking can muster a several-word sentence in addition to his grunts and groans the rest of his peers are able to manage. However, the reader is given access to R’s mind, where he is much more eloquent and his ideas don’t have to be vocalized.
After explaining day-to-day activities, for they can hardly be called “life” if you are undead, R provides his version of some concepts that provide structure in zombie society. Marriage, school, church, and home still exist in their culture, but have mutated, mirroring the transformation of the zombies themselves. Families and relationships in R’s world have taken on different forms, but serve to create an illusion of structure and routine with which to pass the time."
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