Review - Warm Bodies (Isaac Marion)

   Synopsis

'R' is a zombie. He has no name, no memories and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.

Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows - warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape. For reasons he can't understand, R chooses to save Julie instead of eating her, and a tense yet strangely tender relationship begins.

This has never happened before. It breaks the rules and defies logic, but R is no longer content with life in the grave. He wants to breathe again, he wants to live, and Julie wants to help him. But their grim, rotting world won't be changed without a fight...                                                           

                                                                              -Goodreads.com

 My Review

I don’t quite know where to start with this book. I have quite mixed feelings about it, I didn’t love it nor did I hate it either. It simply existed upon my bedside table, was read until finished, and then put to the side; with no further thought really given. It’s not that it was a bad book it just didn’t particularly spark anything in me.

I first wanted to read this book after seeing the trailer for the movie, but was kind of disappointed when the book, didn’t really have any of the witty dialogue I was hoping for. ‘R’ was a very internalized character with a lot of the dialogue going on in his head. At times during the book, I felt the dialogue was too drawn out and had too much of a philosophical feel to it, something I wasn’t really expecting; not that it wasn’t a nice change.

I think the author did a good job of developing the characters, particularly R and it was great to see him change throughout the book, both physically and emotionally. However the main drawback to my enjoyment of this book was the slow pace. It started off great, but kind of lulled in the middle, with a lot of travel, internal monologue and little action. It wasn’t till the end that the story really picked up again.

If you have the time, and are particularly interested in the internal war of instinct versus morality then this book is definitely for you. But if you’re more interested in a hack and slash thrill ride I would give this one a miss.

My rating: 3/5

Top Ten Tuesday (1)

So this is my first ever Top Ten Tuesday post, which is a weekly meme hosted by the amazing Broke And The Bookish.

I realise I'm a bit late to the party, but better late than never. So anyway here it goes...

Top Ten Books On My Spring 2013 TBR list!

Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins): I’m a bit slow on the uptake. Almost everyone I know has finished this series. But here I am still trudging along, trying to keep up with everyone. This is definitely one I need to read soon, I’m dying to find out how it ends. 

Sever (Lauren DeStefano): It’s the last one in the Trilogy, and I HAVE to know what happens in the end!

Guilty Pleasures (Laurell K. Hamilton): I’ve heard a lot of things about the Anita Blake books, both good and bad. But one thing that has come out of my research time and time again, is that this series is jam packed with steamy sex scenes... my only remaining question, where do I sign up? 

Pushing the Limits (Katie McGarry):  The amazing reviews for this book just keep piling up!!

Devils Double (Latif Yahia): So this is a bit of a weird one, and doesn’t particularly fit in with my normal reading habits. But after seeing the movie of the same name a couple months ago, I’ve become very interested in the story of Uday Hussein’s body double. 

Beautiful Creatures (Kami Garcia): Again after seeing a movie I am drawn into wanting to read the book. Although I didn’t enjoy the movie that much, I think the book would offer a lot more which I probably missed out on. So I’m keen to get my hands on this one. 

Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Picoult): Usually I aim to read one Jodi Picoult novel a year, and this is the pick this year. (I’m only allowed one, because they are so gut wrenchingly, emotionally draining and I’ve been told I  become overly invested in the story and become extremely emotional- like the year I read The Pact *sob*)

Losing it (Cora Carmack): It’s been sitting on my desktop for ages just longing to be read. I’m really hoping to get round to this one soon.

Warm Bodies (Isaac Marion): I usually prefer watching the movie and THEN reading the book. But this one is waiting at the library for me as we speak, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

The Edge of Never (J.A. Redmerski): I’m pretty new to contemporary romance and I’ve been looking for books in the genre, and heard a lot of Great things about this one!

The Kiss to End All Kisses

A couple of weeks ago, after a long and inevitable wait. Nick and Jess (from the series New Girl) finally kissed, and boy it was One.Hell.Of.A.Kiss. It was most definitely one of the better on screen kisses I’ve seen in a long time. Probably since Noah and Ally in the Notebook, sigh.

Ahem..Anyway..

I know I've had my fair share of fan-girling moments when the two main characters kiss for the first time. That hesitant moment, where they're both in prime position... then they guy says something quirky and sexy, and I'm smiling like an idiot because I know its going to happen soon...

Yes! I’ll take one passionate kiss to go please! Can I also have some shaking knees, heart racing, and ovary exploding on the side as well.

Anyway it got me thinking about all the romantic first kiss moments in books and I wanted to know, what steamy kissing scenes made you go weak in the knees or gave you butterflys in your stomach? Which scenes did you just Have to re-read, because once wasn't merely enough?
 

So share your favorite first kiss moments from books and tell us why it was so perfect.