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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