Title: Good Writing Talent/Bad Character Development
Product review: I thought Pure was going to be a touching coming of age story. It was not. Rebecca Ray seems to have talent as a writer-this was easy reading and I got good visuals of the characters, the setting and what was going on around them. However, the characters remain static throughout the entire book. Maybe that is why Rebecca Ray chose not to name the narrator/main character-we never really get to know her. All we see is her quirks-her apologizing and men abusing her, but we never get to see why. She cuts herself up, literally, but this is not explored any further. The family is dysfunctional from beginning to end, but all we end up with is a 400 page snapshot of examples of the dysfunctionality without any insight or resolution. The ending is abrubt and without conclusion, resolution or insight. I feel that Rebecca Ray is promising and capable of great things, but she needs a little development.
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