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Partials (2012)

by Dan Wells(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 6

ISBN

0062071041 (ISBN13: 9780062071040)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Balzer + Bray

series

Partials Sequence

review 1: Teens battle human extinction in a post-apocalyptic thriller. In the year 2076, Kira Walker's one of the last humans. Eleven years prior, a war against genetically engineered humanoid weapons called Partials abruptly ended with the release of a weaponized virus that killed most humans. Kira is a medic intern working in the maternity ward, where, despite the doctors' best efforts, there has yet to be a single infant born with its parents' immunity. While the Senate attempts to prevent extinction through the Hope Act--legislation commanding all girls 18 or older to be pregnant or trying to conceive--quantity has not yielded a surviving infant, and the oppressive rule births a resistance movement, threatening their small civilization. Kira's determination to discover a way to... more save her species is intensified through her adopted sister's pregnancy. But with all human aspects of the virus thoroughly studied, Kira and a small band turn to a less orthodox way of gaining biological information--the immune Partials. Their covert mission starts a chain reaction, uncovering secrets revealed through political dealings, medical pathology and paramilitary action sequences.
review 2: I listened to the audiobook from Overdrive. The science fiction aspects and the adventure were very good. I enjoyed most of the book but the interpersonal relationships were often annoying (I'm talking to you Kira and Marcus) and the characters at times really deserved to die. For example, when they are moving stealthily through enemy territory and they just can't shut up. Or when bullets are flying and a character is lying dead and Kira wants to rush into the line of fire to treat him and is told "he's dead Kira." "But I'm a medic. I have to help him." Seriously, what part of dead don't you understand? And there are a few extremely convenient plot points. Like when Kira needs to study a sample of human blood and gets her boyfriend to come to the lab to donate instead of just drawing some of her own blood-- oh, wait that would have spoiled a surprise later in the book. But overall a good book with plenty of action and intrigue. less

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