“Pure” left to my astonishment just a fleeting impression. The writing was great – some bumpy dialogues aside, which I’d like to blame the format (audiobook) for. It gets a bit unnerving when each sentence ends with “he said” or “she said”. – the images and sceneries very well written and the atmosphere rather catching, but still… It didn’t “click”. As I wrote in a former review I always had my difficulties with audiobooks but since I gave them another try I found a method to listen to books and actually keep up with the story. I failed with “Pure”. I found it difficult to follow all those little side stories and keep track of them and apparently (I read other reviews) I wasn’t the only one. Audiobook aside. I’ll surely give it a second try and will pay better attention to the whole development. Another big compliment to the narrator, Jonathan Aris, who read so brilliantly and I’d like to sign a petition that he has to read more books with French vocabulary in them. His sense for languages is drop down magnificent. Contrary to his reading for “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet” he didn’t quite manage the distinction between each character he so skilfully used in “Jacob de Zoet”. All in all a good but slightly disappointing “read”, but nevertheless surely worth a try.