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A review by merixcil
Pure by Rebbecca Ray
2.0
Not that I don't think this is well written, but I don't think it particularly completes. There's so sense of finality to the heroine's arc and no one around her seems to have much of a growth moment either.
What's more, the fact that no one, other than a not-really-friend (described in such a way that we are clearly not meant to be on her side) has anything to say about the paedophilia of the whole thing is...uncomfortable. Which I think was on purpose, but it's intensely distressing to read about parents so thoroughly failing to safeguard their daughter and then to not go anywhere with it.
What's more, the fact that no one, other than a not-really-friend (described in such a way that we are clearly not meant to be on her side) has anything to say about the paedophilia of the whole thing is...uncomfortable. Which I think was on purpose, but it's intensely distressing to read about parents so thoroughly failing to safeguard their daughter and then to not go anywhere with it.