theresam18 's review for:

Purity by Jonathan Franzen
2.0

It took me a really long time to get into this book. I found myself really disliking Pip and not liking her story either. When we started to get into the backstories of Andreas, Tom and Lelia, my interest picked up. But again, toward the end of the novel - more of Andreas' introspection mostly - I lost interest again, and just wanted the story to be wrapped up( though I did appreciate how Pip took control of her situation in the last section). I would have like to rate this between two and three stars, because there were parts I enjoyed and wanted to read more about. But, ultimately, I found that I really only cared enough about the characters to have a few open questions resolved - and none of them really were.