[DeepL Translation - needs review] Told from the point of view of Nokhyun, a third grader in middle school, the film depicts the uproar among family and friends over a zombie outbreak. Not too young, but not too old either, sixteen-year-old Nokhyun learns through the zombie outbreak that "love" is not an abstract concept, but an action, a willingness to care for and understand someone. With each turn of the page, readers are confronted with unanswered questions about what I would do and what...
This takes the zombie virus trope and treats it seriously. It mixes horror and family drama as Nok-hyun tries to look after his zombie mum without getting bitten while keeping her a secret from the authorites.
The author explores the idea of broken families, life priorities and the impact of illness in a family. For a young adult novel the characters and their choices were greyer than I expected. (Until the end, then the author pulls everything together in a way that teenagers would find comfo