Partials - Dan Wells
This is Book 1 in the Partials Sequence trilogy
Synopsis
In the near future, scientist have created super-humans, called Partials, which they used as soldiers in a great war against China. Then, denied rights as human beings, the Partials fight against their human creators. The war ends when a huge virus has wipes out 99.9% of the human population. The people left (in the US at least) have formed a society on Long Island, while the remaining Partials occupy Manhattan and other cities. Unfortunately, all new human babies being born die within a day from the virus. This means extinction for humans is on the horizon. The Partials face a similar dilemma: They were built with an expiration date and are also beginning to die out.
Kira is a teen who works in the hospital and is studying the virus, determined to find a cure. While out on a mission, she and her friends capture a Partial, Samm, who helps lead to a discovery about the virus and the origins of the war that caused it. Together they have to work to overcome the extinction that threatens both species, and also learn what it means to be human.
Review
This is one of those books/trilogies I recommend to everyone. The characters are just wonderful. Kira is a smart teenage science-loving girl who is trying to solve the world's problems. She cares about people and always wants to help them, even when it could bring harm to herself. Samm is a Partial, engineered to be a certain way, but we watch him as he learns to become more 'human'. There's a collection of other characters who are also awesome (Marcus being one of my favorites, with his sense of humor even in terrible situations) and they carry various plot lines alongside the main one.
The plot is action-packed, the writing is fabulous and fast-paced, and the story bigger than you expect. Dan Wells is another one of my favorite authors, and this series plays a large part in that. He builds up a fairly grim and realistic image of what it would be like to be the last remnant of a huge civilization. Cars are left abandoned, many of them still with the skeletons of people in them. Certain technologies are now not usable. Cities are overgrown and silent.
But the main thing I love about this series? It doesn't shy away from asking REALLY HARD QUESTIONS, some with no right or good answer. Is it okay to enslave someone if it means saving others? Would you wipe out an entire species to save your own? Can bitter enemies ever work together? Characters make really difficult moral decisions you don't agree with, but you understand how they got there.
As far as dystopian/post-apocalyptic series go, this one is definitely at the top. Highly recommend.
Rating
I give this book 5 stars.
Details
Genre: YA, Dystopian/Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi.
Sex: Sex is talked about but never described.
Violence: This book is a bit violent, with characters fighting and dying in battles.
Language: One or two swear words.
This is Book 1 in the Partials Sequence trilogy
Synopsis
In the near future, scientist have created super-humans, called Partials, which they used as soldiers in a great war against China. Then, denied rights as human beings, the Partials fight against their human creators. The war ends when a huge virus has wipes out 99.9% of the human population. The people left (in the US at least) have formed a society on Long Island, while the remaining Partials occupy Manhattan and other cities. Unfortunately, all new human babies being born die within a day from the virus. This means extinction for humans is on the horizon. The Partials face a similar dilemma: They were built with an expiration date and are also beginning to die out.
Kira is a teen who works in the hospital and is studying the virus, determined to find a cure. While out on a mission, she and her friends capture a Partial, Samm, who helps lead to a discovery about the virus and the origins of the war that caused it. Together they have to work to overcome the extinction that threatens both species, and also learn what it means to be human.
Review
This is one of those books/trilogies I recommend to everyone. The characters are just wonderful. Kira is a smart teenage science-loving girl who is trying to solve the world's problems. She cares about people and always wants to help them, even when it could bring harm to herself. Samm is a Partial, engineered to be a certain way, but we watch him as he learns to become more 'human'. There's a collection of other characters who are also awesome (Marcus being one of my favorites, with his sense of humor even in terrible situations) and they carry various plot lines alongside the main one.
The plot is action-packed, the writing is fabulous and fast-paced, and the story bigger than you expect. Dan Wells is another one of my favorite authors, and this series plays a large part in that. He builds up a fairly grim and realistic image of what it would be like to be the last remnant of a huge civilization. Cars are left abandoned, many of them still with the skeletons of people in them. Certain technologies are now not usable. Cities are overgrown and silent.
But the main thing I love about this series? It doesn't shy away from asking REALLY HARD QUESTIONS, some with no right or good answer. Is it okay to enslave someone if it means saving others? Would you wipe out an entire species to save your own? Can bitter enemies ever work together? Characters make really difficult moral decisions you don't agree with, but you understand how they got there.
As far as dystopian/post-apocalyptic series go, this one is definitely at the top. Highly recommend.
Rating
I give this book 5 stars.
Details
Genre: YA, Dystopian/Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi.
Sex: Sex is talked about but never described.
Violence: This book is a bit violent, with characters fighting and dying in battles.
Language: One or two swear words.
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