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1. There is a dome. The dome was built to protect a special group of people from a nuclear bomb.
2. People that live in the dome are called Pure because they haven't been touched by the outside world after the bomb fell.
3. The world outside the dome is hell.
When the bomb went off, the people that lived outside the dome were basically fused with whatever they had or what they were doing. Pressia, our protagonist, had a dolls head fused onto her hand. She coul ...more
1. There is a dome. The dome was built to protect a special group of people from a nuclear bomb.
2. People that live in the dome are called Pure because they haven't been touched by the outside world after the bomb fell.
3. The world outside the dome is hell.
When the bomb went off, the people that lived outside the dome were basically fused with whatever they had or what they were doing. Pressia, our protagonist, had a dolls head fused onto her hand. She coul ...more
No idea why this book was on the NYT notable books list for 2012. It's a Margaret Atwood wannabe dystopian novel that feels opportunist in the wake of successful YA series like the Hunger Games and Divergent. I'm not at all tempted to continue the series.
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A ripper of a first book. Intriguing set up and great characters.
This book was hard to pick up but I stuck with it and it drew me in, layer within layer; now I can't put the series down.
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