Ugh. I kept waiting for something to happen, but the writer was too busy showing how awful a post-nuclear world was.

Did I say ugh?

After a big explosion, the main girl fused with a doll. While her grandfather had a fan merged into his body after being exposed to a massive, destructive explosion that destroyed the world as we knew it? It’s impossible. How could it be? With plastic, glass, and steel melted into their bodies, how are these people still alive without infection?

The genesis of Baggott’s new world order also intrigued me. I still find this part of the narrative irritating, despite understanding its importance.

The author had an idea that could make a great story. This book takes place in a dystopian future where people live inside the dome under strict rules and regulations. Partridge longs for escape and wants to discover the truth about the world they left behind. In the world outside the Dome, Pressia lives in fear for the mutants that were created by the detonations decades ago. Pure is a story of lies, radiation, friendships, and conspiracies... But what is more important: safety or freedom?

There was the potential for it to be fantastic. It could have been amazing.

The characters are fine, the action scenes are decent, and the author did not water down the cruelty and violence. How poorly the author handles plot twists is something I dislike.The author builds the world poorly, and I don't like it. The villains kill people for no reason at the end, which I dislike.

Even though I didn’t hate this book, I felt let down by Baggott’s plotting.

There is no guarantee that I will continue the series. ( )

Pressia apenas se acuerda de las Detonaciones y menos todavía de cómo era la vida en el Antes. En el armario donde duerme, entre los escombros de una antigua barbería piensa en cómo el mundo se transformó en ceniza, polvo, cicatrices, quemaduras y cuerpos dañados, fundidos con objetos extraños. Están aquellos que se escaparon del Apocalipsis sin daño alguno, los Puros. Viven a salvo, dentro de la Cúpula que protege sus vidas, seres superiores y sanos. Pero Perdiz, cuyo padre es uno de las personas más influyentes de la Cúpula, se siente aislado y solo. Cuando por casualidad escucha unas palabras que le indican que su madre podría continuar viva, Perdiz lo arriesga todo, incluida su vida para salir a buscarla. Y ahí es cuando se topará con Pressia? Thriller Juvenil.

adult sci-fi (teen-friendly). Sort of an extra dark/twisty Hunger Games, with the priveleged living safe in the Dome and everyone else left to be suffer as Wretches and Dusts and Beasts and such. I need to request the second book from my library right away. ( )

Wow ... ( )