In Pure Julianna Baggott has written a complex dystopian tale of a post apocalyptic world. Pressia Belze has lived outside the Dome since the detonations that destroyed her world, her grandfather tells her of a past that she cannot remember but that will be very familiar to the reader. She believes that life inside the Dome must be perfect compared to hers. Partridge only knows that life under the regime of the Dome is not as easy as those outside might think. When Pressia meets the revolutionary Bradwell she begins to accept that she and others on the outside have been lied to, and when Pressia, Bradwell and Partridge meet, the truth is slowly uncovered.
In this first book of a trilogy Baggott has created a fantastical and yet believable future in which the haves and the have-nots are locked in a deadly relationship.
Pure; Julianna Baggott, (Headline £14.99)
Clare3Bears Children's Book Reviews 