Genre: YA Dystopian
Partials Series, Book 1
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Description (taken from Dan Wells' website):
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.
This was a good read. There's so many twists and turns to the plot. But I can't remember if someone had ruined this book for me, or if I was just an awesome guesser. Because I did have this one figured out from the beginning minus a few twists that kept things interesting.
I'm not really going to talk about the plot because I don't want to ruin it for anyone. If we exclude all the questions that went unanswered, I'd say this has probably been one of my favorite dystopian reads of the year. But there's one question that bothers the heck out of me because I don't think the book ever answered it (or I wasn't paying attention when it did): what the heck does RM stand for?????!
And then of course once I was a hundred pages into the book, I had to question if the author was from Utah. Turns out he is. If you want to know why I drew that conclusion, it's because this book deals a lot with pregnancy. It's not the main theme, but it is a big one. And Utah is notorious for having a lot of pregnant women (and that's all the explanation I'm giving).
All fans of dystopian books should read this one. It's good. Period. I'll be reading the next one when it comes out.
Challenges: Debut Author Challenge and Young Adult Reading Challenge
I'm not really going to talk about the plot because I don't want to ruin it for anyone. If we exclude all the questions that went unanswered, I'd say this has probably been one of my favorite dystopian reads of the year. But there's one question that bothers the heck out of me because I don't think the book ever answered it (or I wasn't paying attention when it did): what the heck does RM stand for?????!
And then of course once I was a hundred pages into the book, I had to question if the author was from Utah. Turns out he is. If you want to know why I drew that conclusion, it's because this book deals a lot with pregnancy. It's not the main theme, but it is a big one. And Utah is notorious for having a lot of pregnant women (and that's all the explanation I'm giving).
All fans of dystopian books should read this one. It's good. Period. I'll be reading the next one when it comes out.
Challenges: Debut Author Challenge and Young Adult Reading Challenge
I am a huge fan of dystopia, but have not read this yet. I appreciate your great review and recommendation.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read this yet either! I totally want to though. It's interesting that you guessed the author was from Utah. Makes me more curious to read the book lol.
ReplyDeleteJenny
Wow... Partials seems to be too stereotypical for a dystopian. I wasn't really interested in Partials in the first place, but I feel like Partials really isn't worth the time if the plot is that simple.
ReplyDeleteIt's only as stereotypical as the reader makes it. And if you like having some science explanations for why things are the way they are, then you might consider this book.
DeleteI gave Partials a try at the bookstore but the first couple of pages weren't really for me. I may give this a go again because I like my stories to have plenty of twists. :)
ReplyDeleteI like dytopia but I 've heard this book have science fiction element to it. I am not a fan of science fiction novel myself. so I am a bit wary to pick this up.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely some sci-fi elements. But what makes it different is science is used to explain some of the things that occur in the book. And I liked that for the most part.
DeleteNice review. Partials is already in my TBR list and hopefully I will read it ASAP!
ReplyDeleteI LOVED this book so, so much. The plot was actually really good to me and was so unpredictable (for me)! It definitely has a lot of sci fi elements to it and does deal a lot with pregnancy which is reasonable because of the situation. Kind of funny how you predicted he was from Utah! ;)
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't think he ever covered what RM stood for. I never wondered about that but rather what the remaining humans had that helped them survive.