PART TWO STILL PURE DELIGHT
Last
year I fell in love with ‘Pure’ and the marvellous talent that is Julianna
Baggott. So my hand was firmly in the
air for ‘Fuse’, part two of this dystopian trilogy. I wasn’t the only passionate fan. In between the books, ‘Pure’ has become an
award-winning novel.
The New York Times named ‘Pure’ in its ‘2012 Top 100 Notable Books’. It was a People Magazine pick for its ‘“Still Hungry?” List’, as suggested reading for ‘The Hunger Games’ fans. Entertainment Weekly picked it for “Find Me a Twilight” and the list goes on. It even featured on Suspense Magazine’s “Best Book of 2012” list.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The New York Times named ‘Pure’ in its ‘2012 Top 100 Notable Books’. It was a People Magazine pick for its ‘“Still Hungry?” List’, as suggested reading for ‘The Hunger Games’ fans. Entertainment Weekly picked it for “Find Me a Twilight” and the list goes on. It even featured on Suspense Magazine’s “Best Book of 2012” list.
If
you haven’t read 'Pure' then put the first two of the trilogy on your reading
list. As Fox2000 has acquired the film
rights and Karen Rosenfelt, the lead producer of ‘The Twilight
Saga’ film trilogy will produce, expect to
hear a lot more of ‘Pure’ in the future.
Do
you need to have read the first book to enjoy ‘Fuse’? Yes and you will enjoy every minute of the
catch-up. In ‘Pure’ we met Baggott’s finely
imagined characters and the devastating and mesmerising post-apocalyptic world
of the Dome-dwelling Pures, untouched by the Detonations. The survivors, the Wretches, live outside in
the wasteland, scarred by horrible fusions of whatever object they were nearest
during the detonations; dolls heads fused to wrists, wings fused to backs,
babies fused to hips and even a boy fused on his brother’s back.
In
‘Fuse’, Baggott hits the ground running as the determined group of Partridge,
Pressia, Lyda and Bradwell embark on a plan to save the Wretches from the
Dome-dwellers who seem intent on wiping them out. Told via multiple perspectives,
our heroes separate on various quests.
Partridge returns to the Dome to confront his dictator Father
Willux. Pressia, El Capitan and Bradwell
embark on an odyssey for the antidote to reverse the Wretches disfigurements
and Lyda joins the savage Mothers.
‘Fuse’
thrusts us deeper into Baggott’s horrifying future vision and expands the central
characters without slackening the pace.
On the final page, we are left hanging precariously over a literary
cliff but if anyone can leave you gladly dangling, it’s Julianna Baggott and
her band of extraordinary ‘Pure’ heroes.
My review copy of 'FUSE' supplied by Hachette Australia.
For more information about this book, click through to Hachette website HERE.
RELEASED: Febuary 2013
Julianna began publishing short stories when she was twenty-two and sold her first nove
l while still in her twenties. After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel, Girl Talk, which was a national bestseller and was quickly followed by The Boston Globe bestseller The Miss America Family, and then The Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam, an historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reveiws).
Her Bridget Asher novels include The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, The Pretend Wife, and My Husband’s Sweethearts. Asher’s novels are widely published overseas.
She has also published award-winning novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E. Bode as well as under Julianna Baggott. Her seven novels for younger readers include, most notably, The Anybodies trilogy was a People Magazine summer reading pick alongside David Sedaris and Bill Clinton, a Washington Post Book of the Week, a Girl’s Life Top Ten, a Booksense selection, and was in development at Nickelodeon/Paramount; The Slippery Map, The Ever Breath, and the prequel to Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman. For two years, Bode was a recurring personality on XM Sirius Radio. Julianna’s Boston Red Sox novel The Prince of Fenway Park (HarperCollins) was published in spring 2009. It is on the Sunshine State Young Readers Awards List and The Massachusetts Children’s Book Award for 2011-2012.
Visit the "Pure" website for the first chapter of "Pure", loads of cool stuff and to learn more. Information on purchasing “Pure” and "Fuse" is also there. I highly recommend you buy yourself a copy of each. You will want to read them more than once.
Her Bridget Asher novels include The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, The Pretend Wife, and My Husband’s Sweethearts. Asher’s novels are widely published overseas.
She has also published award-winning novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E. Bode as well as under Julianna Baggott. Her seven novels for younger readers include, most notably, The Anybodies trilogy was a People Magazine summer reading pick alongside David Sedaris and Bill Clinton, a Washington Post Book of the Week, a Girl’s Life Top Ten, a Booksense selection, and was in development at Nickelodeon/Paramount; The Slippery Map, The Ever Breath, and the prequel to Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman. For two years, Bode was a recurring personality on XM Sirius Radio. Julianna’s Boston Red Sox novel The Prince of Fenway Park (HarperCollins) was published in spring 2009. It is on the Sunshine State Young Readers Awards List and The Massachusetts Children’s Book Award for 2011-2012.
Visit the "Pure" website for the first chapter of "Pure", loads of cool stuff and to learn more. Information on purchasing “Pure” and "Fuse" is also there. I highly recommend you buy yourself a copy of each. You will want to read them more than once.
Visit author Julianna Baggott’s website and blog, with fabulously informative information for writers there. http://juliannabaggott.com/
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