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| Original Title: | Pure |
| ISBN: | 1455503061 (ISBN13: 9781455503063) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.pure-book.com/ |
| Series: | Pure #1 |
| Characters: | Pressia Belze, Partridge Willux, Ellery Willux, Bradwell, Lyda, El Capitan |
| Literary Awards: | ALA Alex Award (2013) |
Julianna Baggott
Hardcover | Pages: 431 pages Rating: 3.74 | 23036 Users | 3149 Reviews
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| Title | : | Pure (Pure #1) |
| Author | : | Julianna Baggott |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 431 pages |
| Published | : | February 8th 2012 by Grand Central Publishing |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia |
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We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run. Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . . There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her. When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.Rating Regarding Books Pure (Pure #1)
Ratings: 3.74 From 23036 Users | 3149 ReviewsWrite Up Regarding Books Pure (Pure #1)
First Line: There was a low droning overhead a week after the Detonations; time was hard to track.Cover Story: Paperweight.Id put this paperweight on my desk. It would look snazzy. As a book cover, though, I dont know; the butterfly and dome both figure into the story, but the image isnt as evocative as it should be for a purely symbolic cover. I dont think it accurately conveys the tone of the book. (Maybe that is the point but I often pick up a book based on the cover, and I think this one isI won Pure as a giveaway from Goodreads First Reads. Pure is a dystopian novel about the world after an atomic bomb has been dropped. A select group of people were saved from the disastrous effects and live in a highly protected dome. The survivors outside the dome are gruesomely deformed; fused to whatever they were touching when the bomb hit. The main character Pressia has a doll head fused to her hand; others have it worse and are fused to birds, siblings, or even the ground. I couldn't
A wonderful, cruel and excruciatingly beautiful, almost poetic piece of steampunk-dystopia.
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 sagaYou'd
Ten years ago, atomic bombs destroyed the world, leaving two groups of survivors: those maimed, burned, and horrifically deformed by the fire and radiation; and Puresa lucky and select group who escaped the explosions unharmed, safely tucked away in a massive glass bubble called The Dome.Pressia survived the explosions outside. Life is hard, food is scarce, and Pressia is nearing her sixteenth birthdaythe time when she will be drafted for military service with OSR. Shell be forced to kill, or be
It's taken a while for me to work out the words to write this review, and to be honest I still don't have them, but as I read this a while ago now I thought it best to get some words down at least.When I read Angelfall I remember thinking the weirdness was just... too weird. Something about it felt forced and odd, to me, but I couldn't quite put a finger on what the "right" kind of weirdness would be. Now I know - this book. The suspense of disbelief is definitely required a little here, but it
So what if someone set us up the bomb, or several bombs, and instead of nuclear winter and all the survivors dying of cancer, they got fused to each other and bits of glass and animals and broken doll heads? Pure is a horror story about atomic detonations gone wrong. Yeahif that isnt a terrifying thought, I dont know what is. Julianna Baggott postulates a post-apocalyptic world that is the fevered vision of a madman in a dome. And thats where it all starts falling apart.Im so over dystopian
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