Pure by London Chandler

Pure is about a fourteen year old girl who just wants to be noticed. To be popular. She goes through what every girl goes through during their high school years. The embarrassment of not having the right clothes, or the right boyfriend. This story is set in Great Britain during modern times. This girl has a family that seems put together and happy, but really isn't. Her mother is getting tired and old and her father is a worn out artist who is losing work and the love of art. Her younger brother Michael is a video game nerd and a genus! Her father and mother fight constantly and everyone is getting tired of hearing the same old argument. So she sets out to change who she is.

When her 15th birthday rolls around she asks her father for a stereo. See on birthdays and on Christmas you don't get to pick what you want you just get something a 'surprise'. So her father wasn't to fond of the idea of her choosing what she wants but she insisted its what she really wants and what ALL the kids now days have. So when her father gives in like every dad does with their daughter they set out to the electronic store. As the girl searches for the 'perfect' stereo a guy who will soon change her WHOLE life taps her on the shoulder. His name is Oliver.

After weeks of sneaking around with Oliver the 27 year old cocaine addict things become weird and scary. Every thing's a lie and what she lost can't be taken back.

This book is one of my favorites because it isn't one of those sugar coated books that just tells you what you WANT to hear but what is true, and what really happens. Pure is about being a know it all and knowing nothing at all. It's about first love and the end of innocence, when the age of consent is a smudge on a far horizon. I give pure 5 stomps.