Since this is the first in a series, I’m hoping that these background individuals make a return and are built upon to create a well-defined cast of characters.Īnother major kudo: the romance.
I found myself actually overlooking the characters names, fast-forwarding to the scenes with Kira and the other more vital characters.
While the major characters were memorable, the minor were just tidbits of the story I couldn’t recall. There were many, many characters to keep track of. The world, devoid of a rich human population, continues to go on without us, erasing all traces of human life. References to our everyday culture, destroyed by war, are quite chilling. Wells’ descriptions of this brave new world is stellar the world he describes is literally a skeleton of the one before it. Instead, their lives are put on fast-forward, forced to produce without the niceties of love. In a normal world, they’d be talking about prom or college and the like. The majority of the characters are teens. Average citizens are forced to take on roles they would have never imagined. Reminiscent of one of my favorite television series, Battlestar Galactica, human kind is decimated by organisms it created. In Partials, Wells creates a world just as terrifying as that in the Cleaver series just with a different monster. I’m familiar with the author, Dan Wells, from his John Cleaver series: I Am Not a Serial Killer, Mr. The first book in a new apocalyptic series, Partials forces readers to truly examine what it means to be human, reevaluating the concept of humanity. She learns that the source of their survival is the Partials themselves, thereby also revealing a secret about her own identity she is unprepared/unwilling to accept. She uncovers a link between humans and the Partials, a link the powers that be want to keep secret. Unable to continue to watch newborn babies die within hours of their birth, she decides to take a desperate step toward finding a cure for RM. Kira is a sixteen-year-old medic in training. Every girl of this age must become pregnant by any means necessary (including insemination) and as often as possible.
The governing body referred to as the Senate is so desperate to prevent the complete devastation of the human race that they lower the mandatory pregnancy age to 16. The plan to repopulate civilization is thwarted when babies are born unable to survive the first few days of life before becoming victims of the virus. The Partials have retreated, the timing of their return unknown. Roughly 40,000 individuals have survived the virus known as RM. FebruJenn Balzer + Bray, Dystopian fiction, Harper Collins Publishers, YA 7Īfter a war against engineered beings identical to humans, known as Partials, human kind is nearly extinct.
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