{"id":556,"date":"2010-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T00:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=556"},"modified":"2024-12-31T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T01:26:02","slug":"warm-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/12\/18\/warm-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Isaac Marion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Random House<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, December 18th 2010<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Warm Bodies<\/em> by first time author Isaac Marion is great fun. Zombies are a familiar staple of B-grade horror fiction (World Zombie Day is October 26<sup>th<\/sup> 2008), and one would expect that a novel told from the perspective of one would be, well, braindead.\u00a0 Luckily the narrator, R, is not your run-of-the-mill zombie.\u00a0 Sure he starts off normal; spending his time moaning, wandering around aimlessly (except when overcome by an insatiable need for food) and slowly decomposing.\u00a0 But even though he has no idea who he is, how he died, or why he became a zombie, somewhere inside his turgid brain he still has questions and dreams.\u00a0 And even he admits to an unusual facility for language; with difficulty he can string four syllables together.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">One day on a hunting trip he bites into a freshly killed brain and in the few seconds during which his victim\u2019s life flashes before him, he relives the first meeting with a girl called Julie.\u00a0 When he opens his eyes to see her staring terrified at him, he is overcome with an unaccountable desire to save her.\u00a0 Thus begins a love story that will not only change them both, but also offers hope to the slowly rotting Dead and to the dwindling pockets of the survivors slowly losing their own humanity behind walls and barricades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">R is one of the most believable and genuine characters I have encountered for a long time.&nbsp; A zombie and a gentleman, he is the perfect ambassador for the maligned and misunderstood beings so long parodied for the amusement of the Living.&nbsp; Marion may be writing from personal experience, but one mustn\u2019t let prejudice get in the way.&nbsp; Alive or Dead, I thoroughly look forward to what he offers us next. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/entertainment\/books\/offering-subsumed-exaltations-god\">https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/entertainment\/books\/offering-subsumed-exaltations-god<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Marion<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times review December 18th 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[115,370,124,18,407],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-115","tag-fiction","tag-isaac-marion","tag-odt","tag-speculative-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}