Dang, I don't even know where to begin with this review. This book was gross and disgusting, totally hilarious, and amazingly beautiful all at once! The first few chapters, I was pretty creeped out. The author does not spare the horrific details of being a zombie. The whole rotting corpse, eating brains, grunts and shuffles - it's all there. But the thing about R is, he's different than the others. You get to hear what he's actually thinking in that dead head of his. He has real, educated, intelligent thought going on up there even though he can't put it into more than one or two syllables when he tries to speak. He is also not real with thrilled with the fact that he has to kill people to stay alive, but what else can he do? Then there's Julie. She is very real and very bad-ass - definitely not some fragile little human. She can take care of herself & she won't take crap from anyone. Oddly, the two seem to bring out the best in each other the more they are together. This is one of those books that will keep you reading into the early hours of the morning - don't plan on doing anything else until it's finished. A very unique story that will change your view of Zombies for good!