- Genre: YA Dystopian
- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Balzer + Bray
- Release Date: February 28, 2012
- Series: (none)
- Source: Amazon Vine
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.
Dan Wells, acclaimed author of I Am Not a Serial Killer, takes readers on a pulsepounding journey into a world where the very concept of what it means to be human is in question—one where our humanityis both our greatest liability and our only hope for survival.
Review:
The young adult post-apocalyptic/dystopian genre doesn't seem to be losing any steam in 2012, with even more genre books slated to be released in 2012 than ever before. Author Dan Wells, like many adult novelists, decides to take on the popular YA genre with his new novel, Partials.
Partials paints a grim picture of the future of the human race. Humans face extinction, and a deadly virus threatens to take the lives of every newborn child. Time is running out for humanity, and the gentically engineered Partials threaten to eradicate them completely. There's where sixteen-year-old Kira Walker comes in. Even though she witnesses the horrors of the virus first-hand, she comes across a wild idea to cure the virus and help save humanity -even if it means going into Partial territory.
Partials advancing an interesting concept at the beginning: a virus kills all newborn children within three days of birth. Therefore, humanity must have as many babies as possible for study and to find a cure. Of course, it's up to protagonist Kira Walker to safe the world. Sadly, once the author gets past the initial set-up and basic exposition, the plot quickly becomes confused and contrived, like the author didn't know what to do next.
That's when things started to get drawn-out and boring. For me, a good one hundred or one pages could have taken out. It seems like it took far too long for the characters to do what they said they were going to do, and once they did that too, was far too long-winded. It also didn't help that I had trouble finding a direction in the middle of it all. Though the ending did bring things together and focused the novel more, the big reveal at the end made absolutely no sense and came out of nowhere -like the author had to do something unexpected, but it didn't really work. The characters didn't help much either, as they tended to be overly emotional and melodramatic during much of the story.
Though it is well-written, Partials is an uneven and somewhat disappointing dystopian novel that had promise, but didn't deliver. And with the endless supply of YA dystopian/post-apocalyptic novels, Partials can't compete with the steep competition.
Dan Wells, acclaimed author of I Am Not a Serial Killer, takes readers on a pulsepounding journey into a world where the very concept of what it means to be human is in question—one where our humanityis both our greatest liability and our only hope for survival.
Review:
The young adult post-apocalyptic/dystopian genre doesn't seem to be losing any steam in 2012, with even more genre books slated to be released in 2012 than ever before. Author Dan Wells, like many adult novelists, decides to take on the popular YA genre with his new novel, Partials.
Partials paints a grim picture of the future of the human race. Humans face extinction, and a deadly virus threatens to take the lives of every newborn child. Time is running out for humanity, and the gentically engineered Partials threaten to eradicate them completely. There's where sixteen-year-old Kira Walker comes in. Even though she witnesses the horrors of the virus first-hand, she comes across a wild idea to cure the virus and help save humanity -even if it means going into Partial territory.
Partials advancing an interesting concept at the beginning: a virus kills all newborn children within three days of birth. Therefore, humanity must have as many babies as possible for study and to find a cure. Of course, it's up to protagonist Kira Walker to safe the world. Sadly, once the author gets past the initial set-up and basic exposition, the plot quickly becomes confused and contrived, like the author didn't know what to do next.
That's when things started to get drawn-out and boring. For me, a good one hundred or one pages could have taken out. It seems like it took far too long for the characters to do what they said they were going to do, and once they did that too, was far too long-winded. It also didn't help that I had trouble finding a direction in the middle of it all. Though the ending did bring things together and focused the novel more, the big reveal at the end made absolutely no sense and came out of nowhere -like the author had to do something unexpected, but it didn't really work. The characters didn't help much either, as they tended to be overly emotional and melodramatic during much of the story.
Though it is well-written, Partials is an uneven and somewhat disappointing dystopian novel that had promise, but didn't deliver. And with the endless supply of YA dystopian/post-apocalyptic novels, Partials can't compete with the steep competition.
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