Good morning readers! Another book has been completed for my reading challenge: #17 A book recommended by a friend: Partials by Dan Wells.
In this dystopian version of the world, it has been 11 years since the world ended as we know it. A company called ParaGen created beings using human genetics, with enhanced strength and agility to replace our soldiers and workforce. Once all human wars were won, these beings, called Partials, didn’t like the second citizenship ways they were being treated. They rebelled against their creators and started a war that devastated civilizations. Soon after the war reached a peak, a virus appeared, killing almost the entire human population, however, apparently leaving Partials unharmed. The surviving humans in the States that seemed to be immune to the RM virus, all congregated and set up a fort in Long Island.
During the 11 years after the war ended against the Partials, the humans created a Senate-based government and a military strong enough to keep the island safe. Children grew up in this world without parents and the surviving adults took in these children and raised them as their own. However, when the population tried to reproduce, the babies would come to term, but once born, the RM virus would kill them within days. Hundreds of babies have died, preventing the human race from creating a new generation. The government became desperate and created the Hope Act, a law that makes all women of breeding age 18 and older get pregnant as many times as possible; their goal: is to break through the immunity rate and hope that a baby will survive.
The book starts with the Senate debating if they should lower the age to 16, to increase the amount of women getting pregnant. A rebel group called the Voice was against the Hope Act in general and presented another threat to the Senate. Young Kira is only 15, months away from breeding age if the law is changed, she would be forced to marry and bear children as soon as possible or be trialed by the Senate for treason. Being a medic in training, working on the maternity floor of the hospital, she has watched too many babies die in the arms of their mothers. She was driven to find and develop a cure. When her best friend announces she is pregnant, Kira promises to do whatever it takes to find the cure and save the baby, even if it means committing treason, or losing her life in the process…
The first ¼ of the book might be a little slow, but once the decision is made to save the unborn child, the book goes to movie speed in a heartbeat and doesn’t slow down after that fact. The storyline is creative and will keep you wondering what will happen next. When events reveal information that could never be guessed, the ending of the book comes too soon, leaving you desperate for the next book in the series!
4.6 out 5, if the beginning would of been a little faster to start up, it would have been a fair 5 out of 5.
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