Title: Overrated
Product review: It's ludicrous to compare this novel to Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone, because the latter possesses a polishness and lyricism that Pure purely lacks. Pure comes off more like a teenage girl's rambling diary than a novel, and probably has less depth and poetry than a real diary. I usually love novels with adolescent protagonists, but this one is uninspired and amateurish and makes me wonder if the publisher published this novel on the basis on the author's youth, hoping to gain a lot of publicity. If you're a 12 to 14-year-old girl, you're better off reading any one of Judy Blumes novels, which portray adoloscent pain with more beauty and subtlety on one page than Pure does in all its 400 pages-- or better yet, if you're a more sophisticated reader, pick up The Virgin Suicides.
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