REVIEW: Pure by Julianna Baggott

Dear Ms. Baggott,

With the buzz over The Hunger Games trilogy, YA dystopian novels are hotter than ever right now – even an infrequent YA reader like myself knows that. I'll admit to being party to the general enthusiasm. I like dystopian novels in general (at least in theory; in practice I'm careful about which ones I read, because some of them are just too grim for me). But YA seems particularly suited to dystopian themes, perhaps because depressing subjects can be a little less so when...