I usually like to write a review of a book right after I've finished reading it, but today I wasn't able to do so. No, I had no time left because I'd already put off having a shower for three hours and had to hurry to get dressed and leave the house. Which bodes well for the book, I'd say, considering I couldn't put it down. 
 Yes, I think it's safe to say that I enjoyed Warm Bodies. I had been putting off reading this book for months now, but I needed to choose another for my book challenge and I figured it was time. Initially, I was putting off reading the book because I watched the movie first. I really, really like that movie, and I was afraid that reading the book would make me like it less because, in the case of novel-to-movie adaptions, the book is usually better. This time, however, I'm not sure it is. 
 It's not that there's anything necessarily wrong with this book (although there are a few points that bothered me and I'll get to those soon), just that I think the ideas were translated better in the movie. The book was very well-paced, which is probably why I was devouring it this afternoon, but there were elements in the book that felt a little rushed in comparison to the movie. 
 The romance between R and Julie was one of those things, and R's transformation is another. While I don't really have a problem with those elements, they did feel like they could have been explored a little more before coming to the end of the book. Speaking of the end of the book, that's another part that felt rushed to me. As I watched the movie first, I can't say whether I would have liked it if I didn't already have an idea of how the book should end, but I didn't really like it this time around and that's a problem for me. While I can overlook the way the first-person perspective made it seem like the romance was rushed, I can't overlook the way the ending seemed to lack substance. The first few chapters of the book were absolutely superb, the distance between those chapters and the last chapter was entertaining and interesting (with a few hokey parts, but I didn't mind those at all), but the end really should have felt meatier than it did. 
 All in all, I did really enjoy reading this book. I found a lot of R's internal dialogue to be really well-written, and the Romeo and Juliet references were much less annoying to me than others seem to have found them. Also, I feel weird mentioning this, but I actually really liked the profanities in the dialogue. It felt really natural, which isn't often the case, and I was quite impressed. 
 Anyways, I've been interrupted writing this about seven times and I'm getting bored of trying to remember what I was trying to say. So book=good. :)