As R puts it: I am dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it. R is a zombie that doesn't remember much of his past but has an appreciation for life that his fellow zombies don't fully grasp. When he meets Julie and sees how life emanates from her, R desperately tries to protect her and a frail relationship between them springs to life - with a little help from Frank Sinatra. It is a doomed world, but R doesn't accept it as such - and now he has a reason to start living.

This book is an amazing read and a fresh approach to zombie stories. The story goes back and forth between the present and R's memories of other people but it is not confusing, it is well intertwined in fact. I've read some zombie books before but I was taken by surprise at the delicacy we can find in R. His character is absolutely delicious - no pun intended. R has dreams and doesn't quite fit into his world, nor he fits into the world of the living. When he meets Julie, his human soul awakens and he wants to fight his new nature, he wants to start living. But in a world where the dead act as badly assembled robots and the living are utterly depressed, change is not welcome. He doesn't fit into any of the worlds but he will try hard to show he deserves a place, a living place - Scary, isn't it? But what wonderful thing didn't start out scary?