Pure - Julianna Baggot

Pure

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Jullianna Baggot

(You might need to read my previous blog post to understand what is the Dome and some other parts)

Pure tells the story of Pressi and Partridge. Pressia is a 'wretch' who now lives outside the Dome since the Detonations have happened, which virtually destroyed the Earth. The wretches are horribly disfigured after fusing with any items they may have been near or holding at the time of the Detonations. Pressia has a doll head instead of her hand. Pressia barely remembers much about her life before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather. She thinks about what is lost and 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. Also how now, at an age 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. 

Partridge however is one of the Pure. He was lucky enough to be inside he Dome at the time of the Detonations, thanks to his father who is running the place. Although Partridge may be whole on the outside, he is very much disfigured on the inside due to the deaths of his mother and brother and a rather strained relationship with his father. Partridge becomes convinced that his mother is still alive somewhere outside the Dome, and a plan soon starts to take shape that will lead him outside into a world he's only ever heard a little about. Needles to say Pressia and Partridge's lives come together and lead them both on a journey they never thought was possible.