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For fans of The Hunger Games, Battlestar Galactica, and Blade Runner comes the first book in the Partials Sequence, a fast-paced, action-packed, and riveting sci-fi teen series, by acclaimed author Dan Wells.
Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts to answer questions about the war's origin that she never knew to ask.
Playing on our curiosity of and fascination with the complete collapse of civilization, Partials is, at its heart, a story of survival, one that explores the individual narratives and complex relationships of those left behind, both humans and Partials alike—and of the way in which the concept of what is right and wrong in this world is greatly dependent on one's own point of view.
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To save her people, she must uncover the truth about her enemies. But what if the real enemy has been with them all along?
A Strong Female Protagonist: Sixteen-year-old medic Kira Walker is humanity's last hope. She's willing to risk everything to find a cure for the plague that kills every newborn, even if it means uncovering a lie at the heart of their society.Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction: Explore a decimated North America where the last tens of thousands of human survivors are barricaded on Long Island, fighting for their future against a virus and the ghosts of the past.Action-Packed Adventure: Join Kira on dangerous salvage runs into ruined cities, face off against rebel factions, and confront the engineered beings known as Partials in a desperate race against time.High-Stakes Medical Thriller: With every baby dying within hours of birth from the RM virus, Kira must use her medical training to solve a puzzle that has stumped the brightest minds for over a decade. The fate of two species depends on her.
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Long Island, N.Y., is the last outpost of humanity in adult author Wells's (the John Cleaver series) YA debut. Wells prefers immediate impact to consistent world-building (for instance, the skin of corpses in a rat- and rot-infested apartment building has somehow been preserved), but it's an intriguing world nonetheless. Weakened by war with an engineered life form, the Partials, humanity was knocked out by RM, a virus that the few survivors have been unable to cure or breed an immunity to. Every baby born since "the Break" has died, and a desperate government has mandated reproduction, hoping for a miracle. Kira, a 16-year-old medic, is tired of death and terrified of forced fertility. When her friend Maddy conceives, Kira concocts a plan to capture a Partial and use its biological material to find a cure. She's not prepared for the shocking humanity of her target, Samm, or for what she learns about herself. Though long on historical description and political debates, readers who enjoy SF-oriented postapocalyptic stories will relish this one. Ages 14 up.
