Partials by Dan Wells

Partials (Partials Sequence, #1)

by Dan Wells

The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Our time is running out.

Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what’s left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she’s not content to stand by and watch. But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them—connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there.

Reviewed by Stephanie on

2 of 5 stars

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I really, really liked the world. I even liked the plot. But gosh dang, did I not sympathize, empathize or anything-ize with the main character. I couldn't tell side characters apart, and the only person that interested me was Samm, and he was an emotionless robot (not a literal robot, but you know, a personality trait).

Plus the pace was slow. The medical stuff was getting really confusing at some points because we were reading Kira's thought process and hypothesizing -- which honestly, didn't matter to me. And then the end was just a mess of ridiculous plans after ridiculous plans. Sigh. I really wanted to like this book, since it was one of the few that didn't boast about a romantic interest in the inside flap. And while there really wasn't romantic (Kira was dating a guy named Marcus, but it seemed like a weak unnecessary character thing), it still didn't make the book more interesting.

I wished this was better. It was just.. meh.

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