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Purenet

1/22/2015

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 Years ago, humans destroyed most of the planet creating a world of harmful UV radiation and scarce food.  Under the dome of the Purenet, the wealthy live a carefree life with engineered food and protection from the sun.  Skylier and her family live in Cueva, an underground system outside of Purenet.  Skylier and her brother want nothing more than to be able to raise enough money to buy medicine for their mother's cancer.  To do this, they must go to Purenet and be chosen for the Sanction Games or to be a Host and bear a child for a Purenet family. When Skylier gets to Purenet, she realizes that there are many secrets hidden from her and that everything is what it seems.

This was a quick, fun dystopian read.  After the initial info-dump about the Cueva, Purenet, the Sanction Games and some of Skylier's family history, I was able to actually get to know the characters a little more and get a feel for the setting.  Things picked up for me when Skylier was in Purenet and realized that she could read the thoughts of someone other than her brother and that the leaders of Purenet were harming the outsiders.  I didn't feel an instant connection with Skylier, but the book was pretty short.  Some of her decisions were good, some not so good. There is a lot of action going on through the last half of the book and some unexpected twists that kept me excited.  I actually could have used a little more information about how the world came to be so volatile and some more background on some of the people that Skylier met in Purenet, just not in info-dump form.  I would be interested in the next book to see what happens to the characters and what they decide to do with the information that they have learned. 

This book was received for free in return for an honest review. 

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Lillian link
5/2/2015 04:15:22 am

This book is fast paced and action oriented. It ends on a cliff hanger, but the story is developed enough for readers to still be excited for what comes next. This dystopian has the common trademarks of other books of the same genre; yet it inspires a different path of thought and continues to throw turns and twists with every page.

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