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Pure is an engaging and exciting post-apocalyptic saga. The main characters are young enough that this could have been categorized as a young adult novel. First we have Pressia who is a deep thinking risk taking sixteen year old girl who has lived with the outcome of the Detonations that went off when she was a little girl. She has witnessed horrors upon horrors and has somehow still survived. The worst part of the world she lives in is that the Detonations didn't actually kill everyone, they ei
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***1/2
This post-apocalyptic dystopian tale starts out with almost-16-year-old Pressia. Her life was changed forever during the Detonations, when everyone who was not in the Dome was either killed or fused with whatever they happened to be touching, either plant, animal, or object. The young Pressia escaped with a few scars and her doll fused to her hand. This is a bit of a stretch, but interesting setup if you can ignore the sheer unlikeliness of it all. Pressia and her grandfather scavenge to s ...more
This post-apocalyptic dystopian tale starts out with almost-16-year-old Pressia. Her life was changed forever during the Detonations, when everyone who was not in the Dome was either killed or fused with whatever they happened to be touching, either plant, animal, or object. The young Pressia escaped with a few scars and her doll fused to her hand. This is a bit of a stretch, but interesting setup if you can ignore the sheer unlikeliness of it all. Pressia and her grandfather scavenge to s ...more
"We know you are here, our brothers and sisters. We will, one day, emerge from the Dome to join you in peace. For now, we watch from afar, benevolently." (p. 2)
After the Detonations, this is the message sent to the surviving people who were outside the Dome. Years have passed and the people outside the Dome are still waiting to be reunited with their "brothers and sisters" inside the Dome. Pressia who lives with her grandfather, is just about to turn 16. She knows she's going to go into hiding b ...more
After the Detonations, this is the message sent to the surviving people who were outside the Dome. Years have passed and the people outside the Dome are still waiting to be reunited with their "brothers and sisters" inside the Dome. Pressia who lives with her grandfather, is just about to turn 16. She knows she's going to go into hiding b ...more
I'm not usually super into futuristic, sci-fi, especially armegeddon-type stories. However, this book had fantastic characters which are well drawn and complex. I found myself caught up in the adventure more because I cared about what happened to them than to find out what happens. I might read the next book when it comes out, or listen to it.
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Finding this really depressing - people fused with things and still alive? Very disturbing!
I'm not sure I want to continue ...more
I'm not sure I want to continue ...more
Apr 07, 2012
Julie
marked it as to-read
Feb 03, 2013
Candice M (tinylibrarian)
marked it as to-read
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Feb 03, 2013
Gillian Dawson
marked it as to-read
