tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53054509566175714.post8322678101497844709..comments2023-10-23T11:37:28.056-07:00Comments on Charming Wholesomeness: Book review: Pure by Julianna BaggottAmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08299582389666651509noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53054509566175714.post-65997581181583405672014-04-01T14:34:10.659-07:002014-04-01T14:34:10.659-07:00There is a love triangle hinted at that never come...There is a love triangle hinted at that never comes to fruition -- both Bradwell and El Capitan are in love with Pressia, but she loves only one of them and the two boys still have a healthy relationship.<br /><br />And you hit the nail on the head -- it's perfectly fine to mesh fantasy and sci-fi, but the two need to be pragmatically balanced. Baggott does attempt to explain how the fusions work; it's something to do with nanoparticles being packaged in with the Detonation mechanism that speeds growth and recovery, and so the nanoparticles assisted human recovery with whatever was there. But that struck me as more "science magic" than actual science, so it made it hard to accept.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08299582389666651509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53054509566175714.post-37060247135127525662014-04-01T14:00:34.797-07:002014-04-01T14:00:34.797-07:00Sounds like no love triangle so that's a posit...Sounds like no love triangle so that's a positive? I'm with you, though, I can take genetic engineering as in The Hunger Games but the doll's head thing would kind of weird me out. One at least attempts to use science - the other thing sounds like it's fantasy in sci-fi ... the genres don't have to be kept separately, but if everything else in your world is more fact based, then magic shouldn't show up.Jen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16190007840481900873noreply@blogger.com