Fuse Themes

You thought Pure was full of memories? Ha. You ain't seen (or remembered that you saw) nothing yet.In Fuse, memories and the reliance in the past is a constant theme, especially for Pressia and Par...

Fear of falling in love, fear of death, fear of each other — the whole world of Fuse is filled with fear. In fact, fear can actually be seen as a good thing in this book. Without it, characters w...

There's a lot of love going on in Fuse: romantic love, familial love, and brotherly love. In some cases, the love is explicit, as is the case with Partridge and Lyda. These lovebirds make their rom...

It's not a coincidence that many of the characters in Fuse mutter the phrase, "home Sweet home" to themselves. Unfortunately, there really isn't any "home" in this novel. While the wretches certain...

There are as many versions of truth in Fuse as there are characters. Bradwell seeks a complete, uncompromising truth. Pressia seeks a truth that will fit her purposes: she wants a solution to a pro...

Isolation is a painful thing: from time-outs as a child to Friday nights spent alone as adults, we're conditioned to be repulsed by isolation. But Lyda's isolation from the Dome allows her to becom...

The world of Fuse is littered with death. The Detonations wiped out the majority of the earth's population—those that didn't die immediately were almost certainly doomed to die from their fusings...

Being short on time is one of the worst things to happen in the real world… and one of the best things to happen in the fictional world. In Fuse, there's an evil dude who rules the earth, and he...