Another Warm Body - an erotic zombie apocalypse story

It's possible she can do anything. Anyway, if you're down for something off the beaten path, you should try this one. Sep 28, Ruthie Knox rated it it was amazing. This novella has everything -- love, steamy sex, a hot doctor, a rifle-toting heroine, and imminent zombification. Dryden writes snappy dialogue, and she's an expert at the short form, so she packs a lot in here.

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I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to spend a few hours being transported by a great story. Jan 17, Traci rated it really liked it. Like candy- braaaains-flavored candy. Sometimes insta-love is annoying, but what with the apocalypse and all I'll allow it.

Another Warm Body - an erotic zombie apocalypse story

I also have a soft spot for hot geeks, dead or alive or a little of both. Sep 19, Heather Thurmeier rated it it was amazing. I loved this book! The whole premise was really fun and I found myself flipping pages as fast I could to find out how it would all turn out. Come on, the heroine carries a hot pink firearm!

What's not to love?! Nov 27, Jennifer Probst rated it it was amazing. This was such a great book! I adored the hero and heroine - their chemistry was hot, the plot was itnriguing and fresh, and I ripped through this in one night. Definitely an author I will be reading regularly! Dec 08, Mojitana rated it it was amazing. It is short but it hits all my favorite things.

Zombies, action, intense emotions, hot sex, weird science. Just a perfect little story. Jun 25, Michelle R rated it it was amazing Shelves: A quick, sexy and sweet read! The hero and heroine were very likeable and although it is only a little over 70 pages, I felt like it was done very well without feeling too rushed like a lot of short books do. Mar 05, Romancing the Book rated it it was amazing Shelves: I was intrigued from the moment I read the title.

I mean, Love with a Chance of Zombies sends your brain to all sorts of places. Then I read the blurb, and I was hooked. The details, plot, and characterization were done so well I felt like I was watching a Sci-fi Movie in my head. Now that the scene is set I can talk about the crack shot, smart mouthed, harder than nails heroine, Lena. Any girl who uses a rifle painted pink with flowers to pick of zombies is a winner in my book. Raised by survivalist , but shunned for her big brains he was pretty much tailor made for surviving the zombie hordes.

This refreshing gal made the dark times she lived in light hearted, and was the perfect candidate for a top secret mission. More than Bunsen burners hear up in the lab, and faster than you can say boo Lena and Luke are engaged in some steamy extracurricular activities. This sexy, smart, action packed story would please any romance reader. Nov 17, Hilly rated it really liked it Shelves: I really, really didn't want to read.

I didn't even start from the beginning, because I was so certain that it wasn't to my taste. I flipped around a bit, but every page that I opened to sucked me in. I don't do zombie stories nor vampire, werewolf, demon, ghost, angel, what have you , so I was waiting to be squicked out, just so I'd have an excuse to stop reading. Instead, I found a sci-fi romance with a great hero. Readers, I loved him. And I thank Delphine Dryden for writing him, a 4 stars. And I thank Delphine Dryden for writing him, as well as the first zombie story that I've ever enjoyed.

And yes, of course I have read it from start to finish, now. Couldn't put it down until I had done so! Nov 21, A. I'm really on the fence with this one. The writing is perfectly fine, the general plot is entertaining. There are exactly two things I dislike. Firstly, when Lena and Lance decide that they should procreate because a we're both hot and b you know, propagation of genetic line, whatevs I was thrown entirely out of the book by the term "Meaty column" All I could think about was one of those gross tubes of ground beef at the supermarket.

And the second thing was the ending. It was too I'm really on the fence with this one. I don't know, it didn't feel genuine to me.

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Jun 17, Steph rated it really liked it. Good, but entirely over priced for less than 75 pages of reading. If I would have know that, I wouldn't have bothered. Having said that, it was a complete and satisfying story, even with little time for character and story development. On a side note, I thought it was pretty naive that our 22yr old heroine thought she was something special.

The good Doctor would have probably had a go with anyone he was stuck with, prior to Good, but entirely over priced for less than 75 pages of reading. The good Doctor would have probably had a go with anyone he was stuck with, prior to biting the big bullet. Dec 14, Karen rated it liked it Shelves: I did like the characters and the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse but the super fast, dirty sex didn't work for me. It made sense in the context of the story but it's just my personal preference to have more of a build up than jumping right to ordering each other around - drop your pants, touch my….

Oct 03, Dee rated it liked it Shelves: A different take on zombies, being infected and finding a cure for the virus. There were some sexy moments but I personally had a hard time coming to terms with how someone could have sex with a guy knowing in was infected!! He also sees Julie as part of Perry's memories and for some reason when he comes back to reality and sees her crouching and shivering with fright against the wall, he doesn't devour her but instead takes her hand and leads her back to his home.

They are also organised by another creature called the 'Boney's' - they are not nice! The zombies are also hunted by the few remaining humans, one of which is Julie's father. Julie and a few thousand other humans live in a stadium and have done for many years. It's a community where children are born with soldiers protecting the parameters. Not much of a life, but survival all the same. There's a surprising amount of action in "Warm Bodies" and the story moves at an exciting pace. And when Julie and "R" become friends something miraculous happens and everything starts to transform for zombies and humans alike.

The story ends a little ambiguously for my taste, but there's hope and the promise of new beginnings. I devoured this book and enjoyed it from beginning to end. It's quite somber, but contains delicious bittersweet moments that we can identify with regarding our own humanity and mortality. This book wants to make you think about who we are, what we are and what a gift life is and how we shouldn't take it for granted. As well as lots of brraaaaaaains - nom nom!

View all 5 comments. With the new season of The Walking Dead back on tonight, I thought I'd go back and take a look at some killer hah zombie fiction. The closest book to the show Walking Dead that I've read is The First Days , so if you're needing more of that gory, survivalist-type of zombie book, I'd check that one out. This book, however, is fresh in my mind due to the author himself making some recent comments that he's not altogether thrilled about some book stores shelving his book as Young Adult instead of A With the new season of The Walking Dead back on tonight, I thought I'd go back and take a look at some killer hah zombie fiction.

This book, however, is fresh in my mind due to the author himself making some recent comments that he's not altogether thrilled about some book stores shelving his book as Young Adult instead of Adult fiction. As a reader who reads both YA and adult, I was sort of put off by this. After all, don't bite the hand that feeds you, right? A big portion of readers who have gravitated toward this book are YA readers.

I even found out about the book through YA friendly readers. Does the book read like adult or YA? I honestly think the book would work for readers of both YA and adult fiction. It's an easy read but there's nothing young feeling about the book, other than getting to dodge a bullet on some of the extraneous world building that can happen in adult books, which is a bonus in my opinion.

What makes this book stand out is some of the dry humor and the amusing take on a zombie love story. This may not be a hardcore zombie book, but sometimes different is perfectly okay! Original Non-review March Every so often, I decide to bypass writing a review, in favor of letting the book speak for itself. These quotes could probably sell you far better than my own words would.

I notice a female on the opposite conveyor. She doesn't lurch or groan like most of us; her head just lolls from side to side. I like that about her. I chew off a man's arm, and I hate it. Of course if I don't eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make me feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while.

We sit against the tiles of the bathroom wall with our legs sprawled out in front of us, passing the brain back and forth, taking small, leisurely bites and enjoying brief flashes of human experience. He is gaping at a late-night soft-core movie. I don't know why he does this. Erotica is meaningless for us now. The blood doesn't pump, the passion doesn't surge. I've walked in on M with his 'girlfriends' before, and they're just standing there naked, staring at each other, sometimes rubbing their bodies together but looking tired and lost. Herpes does that too.

I suck in air and attempt to sing. There's a pause and then something shifts in Julie's demeanor. I realise she's laughing. You and Zombie Sinatra should record Duets, Volume 2. View all 45 comments. Another book off my to-read shelf from !

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I have not seen the movie yet, but now I really want to, esp. Everyone has already read and reviewed this I'm so late for the party , but here's my review. He also happened to eat her boyfriend's brain, so has flashback memories of his life, some of which include her. He met her when his group Another book off my to-read shelf from !

He met her when his group of Deads attacked their group of Living. I was happy to know that should the zombie apocalypse happen, I would be spared since I am fat and the zombies don't eat fat! This story was cute and funny and sweet. These are other things I learned from the book: I read this book to complete the TBRTakedown challenge of reading a book outside my comfort zone.

I've never been into zombie movies and until this book, I've never read any books with zombies. Overall, I just thought this book was okay.. Some parts really grossed me out Parts of it seemed rushed and like we didn't get to learn a lot about the world.. Or there just wasn't enough world building I suppose I did think it was interesting and I liked the changes the main character, R, went thr I read this book to complete the TBRTakedown challenge of reading a book outside my comfort zone.

I did think it was interesting and I liked the changes the main character, R, went through Oct 25, Sophia Triad rated it it was amazing Shelves: R lives at the abandoned airport at a aeroplane. He likes collecting things from the past before almost all the people died or became zombies and loves listening to old records. I go to the record player. He has no memories, no past, no future. He enjoys taking trips to the city with his friend M and the order airport zombies and feeding with available alive humans.

He specifically enjoys eating brains because he can watch like a movie the memories of the person that the brains belonged to. One day he kills someone and he eats his brains as usual and that specific someone had a girlfriend. And just like that R is in love. He saves the girlfriend of the deceased, he takes her back to his home and he looks after her i.

Julie doesn't understand why she is still alive but I have to admit that she is very cool and apathetic about the whole situation. All the political and social breakdowns? The wars and riots and constant bombings? The world was pretty far gone before you guys even showed up. You were just the final judgement.

When Julie goes back to her people, R will follow her. You were supposed to say goodbye. I just consider it a very sweet love story. View all 4 comments. I read the first half very quickly and enjoyed it; I was curious to see where it was going to go. I found it initially an interesting concept - zombie as not a mindless entity. It was a little confusing with Perry, but I did appreciate the idea that zombies crave and eat the brain at least in part to relive memories. That was a new twist, for sure. As soon as I realized where the author was going with the plot, though, I started to lose interest.

I mean, I get that it is hard to come up with a new take on the zombie novel, and I am all in favor of peace, love and harmony, but the idea of love being the cure to the zombie plague just made me roll my eyes. I appreciate the theme of "if we took the time to understand our enemies, we could progress toward peace" but it just didn't work for me here.

The zombie is "R omeo ", the girl he is in love with is Julie t , her previous boyfriend who R eats is Perry Paris , and R's best friend is M ecrutio. I mean, really, obvious much? And what's with Julie being so forgiving of R killing Perry? He killed him and ate him and she just kinda shrugs it all off? The death of the first boy she ever loved?

Perry winds up being portrayed as the monster when all he's trying to do is, hello? Survive in a zombie apocalypse!! Zombie war ended by teenage love. Glowing yellow eyes after being infused by love. Failed zombie book, failed romance story.

A disappointing finish for me, sad to say. May 08, Krista Regester rated it really liked it.

Isaac Marion is strangely great at giving a zombie perspective. View all 7 comments. I fell in love with a zombie. Yes, a zombie romance! Now before you all get grossed out on me, hear me out. In this world, zombies are dead of course , and they are really reduced I fell in love with a zombie. In this world, zombies are dead of course , and they are really reduced to the basic human needs, like food, love, companionship. Zombies group together in hives, where they socialize, form hunting groups to bring back kills for those unable to hunt for themselves, adopt babies and even get married.

The main character, R is a zombie first and foremost. His hive is a dilapidated airport that has sporadic electricity. He has made an airplane into his own little home, where he collects records and other memorabilia that he finds on hunting trips. It is on one of these hunting trips from the airport into the nearest big city that R stumbles upon a small group of humans that are out on a scavenging trip at a pharmaceutical business. Once inside, they overtake the small group and R kills a teenage guy named Perry.

She happens to be on the salvaging trip along with a few others. Surprised by these new feelings that he has for this human, he brings Julie back to the airport to protect her. As R spends more time with Julie, he slowly starts to gain some of his humanity back, starting with speech. Throughout the novel, you get to know Perry through each little piece of him that R consumes. Some things are standard in tales of zombies, such as moaning, blood and guts, mindless hunger. Originally posted on Bewitched Bookworms View all 13 comments. Instead of the expected survivors falling for each other given the end of days shtick, we have an actual zombie love story.

The concept had me questioning would I buy it? Or better yet, would Julie? Even if the background was not as clearly explained as I want it to be, MAN, would I like to pick the brain of the person behind this story! Tom 'quiets' the undead for those left behind. Marion kicks the concept of suffering creatures up a couple of notches. Here zombies, dead though they may be, retain a semblance of their past lives. Take any normal human thing and reduce it to its most basic.

Zombies love, zombies crave and hunger… and as R establishes, zombies think.. Let me back up, the zombies offered up in this one can be summed up thus, You are what you eat. Driven by some inexplicable anger, he leads his fellow undead on a hunt where he meets then eats Perry. It gets weirder, I promise. So all at once, we see one of them spiral into apathy, and the other R regain bits and pieces of his humanity. This was probably the most interesting thing for me.

YET I anticipated; I wanted to know what was in store for them. The biggest CON, apparently the musings of a zombie tend toward purple. Just saw movie trailer Could any amount of my insignificant words fully encompass the greatness of this book? The answer here is no, no because the words printed on each copy of Warm Bodies are already tuned to a vast perfection greater than the sky itself. I applaud you, I give you ten million standing ovations, I declare you to be a master Update: I applaud you, I give you ten million standing ovations, I declare you to be a master of words, an enchanter of souls, a rainbow at the end of a hurricane.

Dear God and all the deities that exist, Mr. I want to change my punctuation. Let me start off with a summary of the plot so I can go into more detail on why I fell in love with this book. R, a zombie introduces us to an apocalyptic world, where everything is going to shit and zombies go around eating the brains of the living. R gets the munchies one day and goes off to get some dinner with his best friend M; R ends up eating the brains of a young guy named Perry.

Something crucial to the storyline is the fact that zombies need to eat people to stay alive, they also like eating the brains because they get to sort of "see" the memories of the person who's brain they are eating. Turns out Perry has a girlfriend named Julie, so when R eats Perry's brain he gets flashbacks that make him want to keep Julie safe. He takes her back to his house to protect her from the rest of the zombies and then things start getting weird, and confusing, and beautiful, and new and I wont ruin it so this is all you get haha. I have to admit that the plot is very original.

Zombies are painted in a very different light in this book, being described more as "humans with diseases" rather than a "spawn of the dead" type thing. Right from the beginning I knew I wasn't going to sleep until I finished this book. I read for 4 hours straight.

Our world was too small to share peacefully; consensus never came, harmony was impossible. So we adjusted our goals. What has me reeling and panting from the book high is the style, the content, the ideas that the author incorporated into this piece of literature that should be taught in schools, read by millions and shared by the world.

Put the zombie-human-romance aside and you get the huge question of existence. Why are we here? Who the hell are we? What is the purpose of us getting up every damn morning if our lives are doomed to end? What does the name we are given do for our identity? If the world went to hell, would we fight to get it back or would we let it rot along with us? These answerless questions are all brought to the surface by this book. The author takes no prisoners. He makes us analyze our humanity without us even noticing.

The style of writing is breath-taking. The way this author uses words to display emotion and thought and even action is something few authors can do. Its raw talent and polished training all at once. Amorphous figures walk through melting doorways into shadowy rooms. Voices crawl through my head, deep and slurring like drunken giants. I play ambiguous sports, I watch incoherent movies, I talk and laugh with anonymous blurs. It describes so much in such a compact space.

This book is one big metaphor that you start discovering as you read. Its the "Who are you and what made you? The awkward pull of feeling warmth towards something that should cause repulsion. The ying and yang of all we are, all we hope to be, and all we will ever be. We will be the cure. Because we want it. You don't have to sit there and philosophically analyze it if you don't want, it is a very entertaining read regardless.

The movie also comes out February so I'm looking forward to that. I loved this book, I think everyone should definitely read it.

Another Warm Body: An Erotic Zombie Apocalypse Story

And I could write so much more but this is already a freaking novel I will just control myself and stop. I'll go to bed and dream of zombies who are capable of love View all 6 comments. The world has been distilled. Being dead is easy. This is a fantastic book. I watched the movie first because I thought it looked funny and now it's one of my favorite films. I decided to read the book, because as the old adage goes, "The book is always better than the movie. This humanized quite literally the zombies and their plight, while making epic comparisons to the state of survival versus living.

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What does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to be undead? This book The world has been distilled. This book is so much more than a Romeo and Juliet zombie drama. This is so much more than the Twilight with zombies. It's about how love is what makes us human, sometimes quite lite R ally. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident. Dec 18, Rebecca McNutt rated it liked it Shelves: A likable premise with some genuinely funny material, Warm Bodies is clever but still pinned down under the predictable tropes of the zombie subgenre.

It's a good story and one of few that actually speaks from a zombie's perspective except perhaps The Girl with All the Gifts , but it starts to drag on and get old really quickly. I only read this book because I was expecting blood, gore and mild necrophilia. Instead, I got a beautifully poetic book full of immaculately developed characters and gorgeous prose that demolished the well-worn cliches of zombie literature and everything I thought I knew about those old shufflers.

Man I hate it when I don't get what I want. I'm so freakin excited to be starting this!!! Anyone who knows me well, knows that I have a love for all things zombies. Want to talk fantasy? Visit our awesome fantasy forum to find out what's what in the fantasy world and to meet other cool fantasy lovers. When zombies have a supernatural or magical explanation for their existence the level of science is non-existent.

However, when the explanation is scientific, the level of science can be a well researched and seemingly plausible cause. The result is a high level of real science because the cause of the outbreak scientific and so is the cure should one be found before everyone dies. While zombies have become a cultural icon, they are rarely the focus of a Zombie story, just the propellants of the plot.

The truly interesting aspect of Zombie fiction is what happens to humanity and relationships when loved ones are turned to cannibals, when death awaits you at every corner, when the normal social order collapses. An environment such as this strips away facades and presents humanity in its most basic and gritty form—a desirable place for writers to explore grand ideas.

Zombie stories focus on how characters react to an extreme, world-altering catastrophe. As the story unfolds, readers can see how the personalities of characters are altered and how actions in a zombie infested world differ from a 'normal' world. Zombie stories have a typical plot: This typical plot provides room for character development and the exploration of social implications.

Blood, guts, and brains part of Zombie fiction's scenery. Zombie stories are about death and surviving the zombie horde—expect guns, baseball bats, and anything else characters can get their hands on to be used as weapons to facilitate their own survival, not all of which may be directed at zombies. A zombie outbreak causes mass destruction and catastrophe and so most Zombie stories are also stories about life during and after an apocalypse.

Zombie fiction provides space to explore social issues anthropological, psychological, sociological and speculates about behaviour and interactions. Zombie fiction can be used as means to scare, if that is the intent of the book. A plague, first thought to be rabies, but then discovered to resurrect the newly day spreads around the world.