The concept of zombies in Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion is so different from the stereotype we have in current zombie fiction that it offers an eye-opening perspective from "the other side." It was shocking to read about the main character, "R," attending "church" with his supposed girlfriend, getting "married," and "having" children the day after (when elders presented them with a boy and a girl to care for). Even though they are technically walking corpses, they seem to still have enough life present in their minds to carry out familiar behaviors. Though I'm not questioning the potential of zombies to hold such "human" activities, it is quite interesting to read a book that offers the dead's point of view. I found particulary disgusting yet interesting the act of having sex between two zombies––slamming their bodies together while naked, with confused expressions, seems to be the most they can do to fulfill their sexual desire (that I didn't expect to still exist among zombies...).
R notes that eating the brains of a freshly killed Living gives him the memories of that person. This concept really struck me as disconcerting, but it also makes sense. The brain is where we store all of our memories, and the way Marion wove this into the story is well done.
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