In my mailbox - Pure

In my mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kirsti over at The Story Siren. If you want to find out what great books other book bloggers have gotten in their mailbox head on over to Kirsti's blog :) It's been awhile since I've done an IMM post but I got this super cool book this week that I wanted to show you peeps(since no one here understands my excitement I know you guys will). The fabulous people at Headline has sent me an ARC of a 2012 dystopian novel that I've been wanting to read ever since I heard it was coming out and that is PURE by Julianna Baggott. I only have a lousy picture that I took with my mobile to share:

UK arc cover.

I'm not sure what the finished UK cover will look like but in the meantime I can show you the US cover:

US final cover.

  If you haven't heard of Pure before then check out the synopsis: 

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.

Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . . There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her.

 When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.

Want to know more? You can read the opening pages here. What did you get in your mailbox this week?