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This story has so much heart. The characters are so well drawn and believable. It made me feel good.


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Pure Red Danielle Joseph Books Reviews

Cassia is a great and thoroughly enjoyable narrator who searches for her passion in life by looking for it in basketball, art and romance. How many of us are still searching for that one thing that we MUST have in life... it was wonderful to join Cassia in her journey!
This was a very realistic story of a family broken apart by the death of Cassia's mom. Cassia challenged by a guidance counselor sets out to try new things in the summer before her junior year. This starts with basketball on a YMCA league where she is bullied by one of the other players. This is a big challenge for her especially when she meets a boy, Graham, at one of her father's art exhibits. Cassia faces challenges with both Kate the bully and how to deal with her and trying to grab Graham's attention away from her father. She struggles through the summer, breaking her ankle, finding out her father is dating a new woman and the developing feeling she has for Graham. She feels like she just can't find a place to belong but will it all end well?

I enjoy the story of what seems to me to be a pretty normal teenage girls life. It was a great story for demonstrating perseverance and trying new things in order to really find what you love doing. That was the really eye opener I think in this book was that Cassia learned a lot over this summer but her life really didn't change all that much. More she learned to change and adapt.
According to Cassia Bernard's school guidance counselor, she's coasted through school without ever finding any particular place to fit in or any special passion and it's going to affect her chances for college if she doesn't find something. Hoping to rekindle some happiness she felt playing basketball with her friends, Cassia enrolls in the Y's summer program and finds not only is she good at it but she enjoys the competitive feeling of the game. It's exciting, a coordinated and focused dance and she's in the middle of it until an on-court accident knocks her out of the game with a sprained ankle. Forced to sit on the sidelines, she ends up back orbiting her famous father's life.

Jacques Bernard becomes The Famous Painter wherever he goes, drawing attention, losing track of time and usually forgetting his daughter. Cassia meets a cute guy at one of his exhibits and brings him home, only to find out Graham wants Jacques to mentor him. After her basketball injury, Cassia becomes their third wheel, following Graham and Jacques, hoping Graham will notice her and hoping for once her father will pay attention to her.

This is a slight book in a couple of ways, but still one that was easy to read and I think it will resonate with anyone who's ever had the experience of being overshadowed by someone or felt like there was something wrong with them because they didn't know what they wanted to be.

Even though it's her father that spends his life immersed in paint, it's Cassia who associates a broad spectrum of complicated emotions with colors. Everything she sees has a meaning, from the gray of the opposing basketball team's shirts to the purple that Graham always wears. Red is the most important color to her - subconsciously perhaps, because it was her mother's favorite, because it appears in her father's paintings often. Cassia could be too introspective and a bit bratty for a sixteen year old, but I really loved the basketball scenes. The bullying with her teammate, the focus she felt during the game and the almost obsessive-compulsive way she practiced all felt very real to me.

I don't know if I can be anything but irritated with her father. I thought he was shamefully neglectful although I will give the author credit - the scenes in the story where he completely tuned Cassia out to go pay attention to someone else were just painful. I can't say that I bought his redemption - strictly as a reader, I needed more page time to forgive him.

I see-sawed a little with Graham and Cassia's friendship and sort-of more. I liked him, sometimes against my better judgment, because I couldn't tell what his motivations always were. I think whether or not he was boyfriend material, he was good for Cassia because he made her think about what she deserved and wherever they ended up off the page, I was okay with that.

This isn't a book driven by external conflict or one that has any great drama. It's a quiet book, with the relatively quiet personal issues of one girl in one summer. I loved the way Joseph used colors for emotional imagery, especially as it's used almost defiantly by Cassia at times. Even if this isn't strictly a "message" book, I think it stands well as a coming-into-self story that nearly all of us can relate to.
My Thoughts What happened to loving loving Danielle Joseph? I loved Shrinking Violet, I really enjoyed Indigo Blues but Pure Red was just okay for me.

We are introduced to Cassia who lost her mom as a child. She has lived with her dad. Her dad is a painter, and he's quite known, or at least in some parts. Cassia is trying to find her passion. She's good at a few things but never really feels like they can be her "thing." Even though her dad is around a lot and in her life, I didn't feel like he was really there for her. I didn't like that because dang, the girl has already lost her mother, pay attention to her!

She decides to join the Y's basketball team during the summer with her best friend. It's fun enough, and distracts her from other things. She's quite good at it. She also meets a boy named Graham aka cutebutt. Graham has an interest in her father's paintings, he became his mentor. Graham is over at her house quite a bit now, and Cassia spent the novel trying to get him to notice her.

Honestly, that is basically the plot. I felt like this book might be considered more middle grade than actual YA if that makes sense. It was really easy to read but I felt like it lacked the substance that the author's other two books had. It didn't have the wow factor for me. It was more of a cute read than a super fun read.

Even though we are supposed to believe Cassia has grown a lot by the end of the book, I'm not sure how much she actually grew up.

I think Joseph is a talented young author but I just don't think this lived up to the hype I had built up in my mind. I was hoping I would love it like the other 2 novels.

Overall It was just okay. I liked it enough to keep reading. I was hoping it would get better, to be greatness and by the end of the novel I was left wanting more, and to know more details. Hopefully Joseph's next book brings me back to the WOW factor. This one was probably more of a 3.5 cupcake for me than a 3 cupcake book. I liked it enough to continue reading but wasn't blown away.

Cover Like it a lot. Its very eye catching. Love how their heads are down next to each other. Very cute cover.

What I'd Give It 3/5 Cupcakes
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Review Based on Softcover Edition

Taken From Princess Bookie (blog)
This story has so much heart. The characters are so well drawn and believable. It made me feel good.