Warm Bodies

Title: Marion, Isaac.  Warm Bodies.  New York: Atria Paperback, 2011.  Print.

Overview:  Set in a world overrun by zombies, R is a zombie unlike any other.  R has thoughts and feelings and he's done something that no other zombie has ever done.  During a feeding frenzy R saves a teenage girl from being eaten by his fellow zombies and now his life and the lives of everyone else, living and dead, will never be the same.

Critical Analysis:  Warm Bodies is unlike any zombie story I've ever heard.  For one, it's told from the point of view of the zombie.  That makes the story very interesting to read.  Instead of seeing from the mind of the zombie's victims, in this story we get to see what the zombie is thinking.  It's incredibly weird to have that perspective on a post-apocalyptic world, but it's what makes the story so gripping and hard to put down.  I would definitely recommend this book for those who like supernatural books that aren't cookie cutter.

Book Recommendations With Similar Themes: 

1. Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst.  Pearl is your average teenage vampire living in a boarded up house with her vampire family, drinking blood, and avoiding the sun.  That is until a unicorn appears and stabs her with his horn.  Then Pearl begins to change and her family decides they can use it to their advantage.  If Pearl, now able to walk in the sun, enrolls in high school she'll have access to hundreds of meals on legs.  That's just what her family needs when they host the Vampire King's feast, but along with ability to walk in the sun Pearl starts changing in other ways that might sabotage the feast that her family has worked so hard to prepare.