Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott
Oh what to say about this one. The world Pressia inhabits is about as post-appocolytic/dystopian as could imagine. Unlike some recent dystopias, this is a harsh, incredibly bleak world without a scrap of beauty to redeem it. Society is almost non-existent, the few survivors are horribly deformed, struggle to eat and live, and the remaining younger members live in fear of being press-ganged in to a militia as soon as they turn 16.
Partridge’s world, may be filled with all the beauty and food, that is missing from Pressia’s, but it is run with a heavily oppressive rule, and Partridge and his peers, are forced to have ‘enhancements’ made to their brains and bodies.
This all works wonderfully well. But there’s another part of the book that’s also goddamm weird. Those that were outside the dome when the detonations hit (and survived) were ‘fused’ to whatever they were touching at the time… Pressisa was holding a doll for example, so now her hand has been replaced by her dolls head… Another character’s back is covered by still living birds… You see what I mean? Weird.
Julianna Baggott, some how however makes it work and keeps it the right side of over-the-top. I’ll be honest it takes a decent amount of the book to do so, but at some point, you do just accept it ‘as is’ and stop worrying about it.
Read the full review here: http://www.bartsbookshelf.co.uk/2012/01/11/review-pure-by-julianna-baggott/
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