"You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident." 
 Part love story of R(omeo) and Julie(t), part dystopian novel and part social criticism. R longs for his name and his identity, and Julie wants so eagerly to set things right. Together they actually can. 
 My favorite part of this novel was always the social criticism. There's something incredibly tragicomical about R's intelligent thoughts and his inability to express them. I quite enjoyed being in his head, and listening to his personal account of everything that went wrong with the world. He is so eloquent, so accurate in his final conclusion of humanity, and as I read through the novel, I often found myself nodding along and agreeing with him in the little things that makes up the final differences between the living and the dead. Identity, a focused goal, nutrition, sex, adrenaline and articulating - the primal forces, that draws the thin line between being Dead and being Alive. 
 However, I never quite warmed up to the romance. It's not because it's a Romeo & Juliet retelling (because, let's face it, all love novels honestly are in some way or another), but because it was too easy, too simple. (view spoiler)[Why on earth would Julie forgive R so quickly? He ate her boyfriend, and used his brain to gain knowledge on her. I know it may be in his nature - but it's still unforgivable. At least if you think about it logically. I always felt there ought to be some struggle, some hesitation on Julie's part - but there never was. (hide spoiler)] 
 This is a short book - and I really think Marion succeeding in filling the pages with interesting thoughts. But that's just it; R's thoughts always interested me more than the plot itself.