Review: Partials

PARTIALS
Dan Wells

Released 2.28.2012

Blurb From The Publisher:

Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the world’s population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. The threat of the partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to the disease in over a decade. Humanity’s time is running out.
When sixteen-year-old Kira learns of her best friend’s pregnancy, she’s determined to find a solution. Then one rash decision forces Kira to flee her community with the unlikeliest of allies. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that the survival of both humans and partials rests in her attempts to answer questions of the war’s origin that she never knew to ask.

What We Thought:

     Dan Wells shocks readers into his vision of the future with the release of Partials. Set in the not so distant future humanity has been stricken with a virus that killed all but 30, 000 people and a war that devastated a generation. To win a war man created a race of human like machines to fight for them against other countries but after the fight these Partials turned on the people who enslaved the after their fight. Partials are believed to be the spreaders of the deadly RM virus to the population that struck the next generations sterile or dead. The survives of these first rounds of plagues are struggling to find a cure as fast as the virus is destroying every new life that comes into the world

    Through a captivating and thrilling plot we are taken into this dystopian landscape where 'humanity isn't just human' and where political agenda reigns supreme. Following the story of what may be the last city of humans on Earth we are following an aspiring young medical worker Kira who is struggling to end the rampant deadly RM virus before it kills her best friend's upcoming baby. Through Kira we experience this world through the lens of a sixteen year old who is losing her rights and possible going to lose get life while on a mission to save everyone. What Kira needs is a Partial, the very older born creation that is either killing all the last humans on earth or that could be their very cure. 

      Kira is swept into a building political plot and captured across enemy lines but this thrilling adventure does not stop there, what Kira does not know now may be part of the very thing she grew up fearing. With a fantastic progression and a well-orchestrated  series of turn of events Partials will catch readers and keep them hooked in this great new YA series from Dan Wells.





Totally Looking Forward To:

Fragments
Partials #2
Dan Wells


Releases 2.23.2013


Blurb From The Publisher:

Kira Walker has found the cure for RM, but the battle for the survival of humans and Partials is only just beginning. Kira has left East Meadow in a desperate search for clues as to who she is. That the Partials themselves hold the cure for RM in their blood cannot be a coincidence—it must be part of a larger plan, a plan that Kira knows she is a part of, a plan that could save both races. Her allies are Afa Demoux, an unhinged drifter and former employee of ParaGen, and Samm and Heron, the Partials who betrayed her and saved her life, the only ones who know her secret. But can she trust them?
Meanwhile, back on Long Island, what’s left of humanity is gearing up for war with the Partials, and Marcus knows his only hope is to delay them until Kira returns. But Kira’s journey will take her deep into the overgrown wasteland of postapocalyptic America, and they will both discover that their greatest enemy may be one they didn’t even know existed