3 generous stars for excellent world-building and interesting ideas but no more because of the novel's density and lack of actual plot.

When I recieved this ARC, I immediately discovered some very interesting facts from the back of the book. This is taken directly from the back cover:

• Won by GCP during a heated two-day auction
• International language rights sold overnight in nine countries
• Film rights sold to Fox 2000 Pictures with Karen Rosenfelt, lead producer of the Twilight saga

You'd think this must be something pretty special, right? Well, yeah. I can see this making a really good film with lots of CGI opportunities and action scenes... but as a novel it was dull. The author definitely spent a lot of time on this dystopia and it wasn't a simple I-didn't-think-this-through idea like, say, Wither. But the novel contained too many lenghty scientific explanations and often went off on random tangents in order to create some small and unnecessary subplots that almost sent me to sleep.

The idea that the author has had could potentially have made a great story. Set in a dystopian future, those who live inside the Dome are guarded by strict rules and regulations, Partridge longs to escape and find out the truth about the world they all left behind. Outside the Dome, Pressia lives in constant fear of attack from all the deranged mutants that were created by the detonations from years ago. This story is about lies and radiation, friendships and conspiracies... but the real question that Pure seeks to ask is: what is more important: safety or freedom?

It could have been fantastic. It should have been fantastic.

But, like Feed, it was filled with crap that bored me. There were long conversations about war and atomic bombs that were snore-worthy, rather than insightful and eye-opening. A lot of characters were brought in that didn't add anything to the story but served only to make it more confusing, and it also kept switching to a random new perspective. There were the two main POVs: Pressia and Partridge, but then every so often it would switch to someone else for a chapter and it simply wasn't needed.

Plus, I would also like to add that the only thing young adult about this book was the characters' ages. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the younger end of the YA genre didn't have a clue what was going on, especially in the beginning - it's mind-boggling! So, like I said, this is the kind of novel that I can see making an excellent film but the author's writing style made my head hurt so I'm not sure I'll be continuing with the series.