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Pure by Julianna Baggott

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.75

I randomly remembered reading a dystopian book about deformed people and a girl with a doll for a hand when i was about 12. I never finished it, so i decided to give it another go.

The premise was great, but i think the execution didn't live up to it. While this obviously isn't a romance, i wish we could see the progress of their relationships progressing, instead of pressia disliking bradwell and then suddenly falling in love.
and the scene where bradwell tells her how beautiful her scar is and kisses it was so incredibly cliche and cringe. Gave me shivers of disgust.
Same goes for lyda and partridge. The plot progressed really slowly, the plot twists weren't that twisty and thing  somehow kept turning out the right way for pressia and partridge, to the point it seemed a bit lazy.

Julianna has a pretty simple and easy writing style, but with it she managed to paint vivid imagery of the world and fused wretches. It might be a bit too much for a YA book, but i did really like how dark and violent it was and detailed in the descriptions of gruesome fusions.

While i don't think it's a great book, i did find it interesting enough to want to read the other two in the series!
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