‘The zombie book having a heart’, Guardian

Now a major motion picture starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich, Warm Bodies is the greatest zombie read this Halloween..READING MORE about Warm Bodies (The Warm Systems Series)

‘R’ is certainly a zombie. He does not have any name, no recollections, no pulse, but he has dreams. He’s a little different from his fellow Dead.

Between the ruins of the abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is normally Julie and she actually is the contrary of everything he knows – warm and shiny and very very much alive, she actually is a stream of colour in a dreary gray landscape. For reasons he can’t understand, R chooses to save lots of Julie instead of consuming her, and a tense yet strangely tender romantic relationship begins.

This has never happened before. It breaks the guidelines and defies logic, but R is definitely no longer content with life in the grave. He wants to inhale again, he really wants to live, and Julie wants to help him. But their grim, rotting globe won’t be transformed without a fight…