Friday Fiction: Warm Bodies (Review)

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I’m going to try something new. Instead of reproducing fiction, I’d like to sometimes talk about or review it. So this is partly an experiment.

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Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

As my friends will attest, I like zombies. Zombie films, zombie games, zombie novels, zombie makeup and zombie women.

Me, in 1998

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (2010) is generally described as a zombie romance (zom-rom with hints of com) about a zombie who becomes more self aware as he falls in love, and comes to question aspects of his lifestyle (and that of other zombies). And as with most zombie works, it therefore isn’t really about zombies at all. They exist as a mirror held up to contemporary society, a rotting subject matter hiding wider themes which become more visible as the flesh is stripped away.