Pure

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… show more.

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… show more.