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A review by cutenanya
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
4.0
After watching the movie, I must say I'm so glad I read the book first because the book is so much better than the movie. What I liked about this book:
1) The fact that the story was related from the main character (R's) point of view.
2) The world building
3) Interactions between Perry and R
What I disliked about the book:
1) While the story is interesting, there is a lack of climax in this book.
2) It's not clear how R changed (but probably we will learn more about that in the future books)
I shall elaborate a bit more below (with spoilers)
#1 POV: I think one of the strong points in this book is the use of first person narration as it brings out the contrast between the R (who is eloquent and intelligent inside) and the R (who is weak verbally and can hardly express himself well on the outside). Unfortunately, the movie takes a third person POV most of the time and failed miserably.
#2 The world: In the book, all the countries have vanished because of the plague and naturally, there is no longer racial discrimination because the human race is so worried about their own existence they have little time for other things and I like this notion. There is so much tension between countries and races that human seem to have forgotten fighting or hurting each other just won't work on the long run because we live in the same globe and frankly, we are facing more common threats than threats from each other. If we don't start working together, we'll end up like in a world like the one in Warm Bodies, or even worse.
#3 The interactions between Perry and R: I think a key to the change in R is Perry. After consuming Perry's brain and absorbing his memories and emotions, R began to transform and all through his change, I have a feeling it's partially powered by Perry, In the book, Perry is a more interesting character who seems to see the world more clearly after he's been absorbed by R. Unfortunately, Perry has been reduced to a totally unimportant and useless side character.
All in all, I am looking forward to the sequel though it seems this is not a planned series as other series.
1) The fact that the story was related from the main character (R's) point of view.
2) The world building
3) Interactions between Perry and R
What I disliked about the book:
1) While the story is interesting, there is a lack of climax in this book.
2) It's not clear how R changed (but probably we will learn more about that in the future books)
I shall elaborate a bit more below (with spoilers)
Spoiler
#1 POV: I think one of the strong points in this book is the use of first person narration as it brings out the contrast between the R (who is eloquent and intelligent inside) and the R (who is weak verbally and can hardly express himself well on the outside). Unfortunately, the movie takes a third person POV most of the time and failed miserably.
#2 The world: In the book, all the countries have vanished because of the plague and naturally, there is no longer racial discrimination because the human race is so worried about their own existence they have little time for other things and I like this notion. There is so much tension between countries and races that human seem to have forgotten fighting or hurting each other just won't work on the long run because we live in the same globe and frankly, we are facing more common threats than threats from each other. If we don't start working together, we'll end up like in a world like the one in Warm Bodies, or even worse.
#3 The interactions between Perry and R: I think a key to the change in R is Perry. After consuming Perry's brain and absorbing his memories and emotions, R began to transform and all through his change, I have a feeling it's partially powered by Perry, In the book, Perry is a more interesting character who seems to see the world more clearly after he's been absorbed by R. Unfortunately, Perry has been reduced to a totally unimportant and useless side character.
All in all, I am looking forward to the sequel though it seems this is not a planned series as other series.