Source: Booktopia
Author Julianna Baggott
Title Pure
Publisher Headline Publishing Group
ISBN 978-0-7553-8549-2
Paperback. (2012)
“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.”
Pressia is going to turn 16 in two weeks, and she needs to hide from OSR. If she’s captured, they will take her to headquarters and either teach her to kill, or use her as a live target. She hopes OSR (Operation Sacred Revolution) has forgotten she exists. Her mother and father were killed when the Detonations occurred, just over nine years ago when Pressia was six years old. She vaguely remembers her parents and sometimes feels cut off from the rest of the world.
Partridge is the son of the head of authority inside the Dome (a large safe-house that hovers above the earth’s surface). He misses his older brother, Sedge, who died after graduating the academy into Special Forces. Special Forces are the only ‘pures’ who leave the Dome and roam the surface of the earth, inhabited by the ‘wretches’.
During a trip to the Personal Loss Archive, Partridge opens his mother’s box of effects and finds evidence that she may be alive outside the Dome. He plans an escape. Pressia’s 16th birthday arrives and OSR are searching for her. She must leave her ill grandfather behind and go on the run.
Their worlds soon collide and rumours spread that a pure is walking among the wretches. Pressia and Partridge learn to rely on each other after many dangerous encounters and agree to help each other uncover the mysteries surrounding their pasts, and the Detonations.
My Thoughts
This future earth is a dark and dangerous place. In the process of uncovering the mysteries of their individual pasts, Pressia and Partridge uncover a conspiracy involving the Detonations and the Dome. The plot is gripping and tension rises the more clues Pressia and Partridge uncover.
It’s intriguing to watch the wretches – humans deformed by the Detonations, some fused with inanimate objects, some fused with animals – try to cling to their humanity, despite the hostile environment requiring them to go to extreme measures to stay alive.
Recommended Readers
Young Adults, Adults, possibly Seniors.
News
I also found out that the Pure series has been signed to be adapted to films. I am extremely excited.
Check out the details here.
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