Pure
Book description
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 Belze has lived outside of the Dome ever since the detonations. Struggling for survival she dreams of life inside the…
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I rarely read young adult books, but Pure’s cover intrigued me. That’s good because it was a fun read.
Well-developed characters and a clever setting play a large part in the book’s charm. Pure takes place after a nuclear war. There are plenty of survivors, but the radiation left behind has a secret side effect never disclosed to the public: It causes flesh to merge with objects.
For instance, the main character has a doll for a hand. Her grampa has a fan stuck in his throat. Some people are fused with the ground. A group of mothers merged with…
From Benoit's list on sci-fi books with strange settings.
As a science fiction, speculative writer this book opened up my imagination to stretch my mind even more when it came to what science is capable of. Not only man-made science but the science within our own natural bodies and how certain scenarios can cause mutations. Lack of certain elements or too much of another can cause a very strong reaction on humans and earth. This book explores a world destroyed by nuclear bombs and how the poison has scarred earth and its human survivors afterward. Just another display of how science can change life on a minuscule level as…
From Carlyle's list on sci-fi as a way of explaining the angelic creation.
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