
He slowly gains Julie's trust, and convinces her to stay for a while until the others forget about her. He disguises her scent with zombie blood, and takes her home where he hides her in the 747 airplane. After experiencing his memories, R sees Perry's girlfriend Julie, and in a moment of mercy, saves her from the others. In a hunt, R feeds on the brain of a young man named Perry. R, a Fleshy, is unusual as he shows distaste for eating human flesh, and can form several coherent syllables in one breath, and collects various objects from the outside world that he hoards in his "house", a Boeing 747 airliner parked at the airport. Zombies whose flesh has completely decayed away are known as "Boneys", which act as "pack leaders" of sorts to the others, who are known as "Fleshies" and still retain traces and behaviors from their previous lives as humans, though R explains that most of the behaviors are done out of force of habit rather than an attempt to "live".

After the collapse of human civilization, zombies hunt for the living, seeking to eat their brains doing so allows them to relive the memories, feelings, and thoughts of their prey. He cannot remember his name, and refers to himself as "R". In a post-apocalyptic future, a male zombie still in the early stages of decay lives in a community of the dead in an abandoned airport near the city. Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, acquired the publishing rights to the full novel in early 2010. The author, based in Seattle, originally wrote a short story titled "I Am a Zombie Filled with Love".

The book was described as a " zombie romance" by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and makes allusions to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Warm Bodies is a novel by author Isaac Marion.
