And some might just as easily take a gunshot for her as to try to blow her up. Enter Kira Walker, a medically minded teen who is determined to find the cure and secure a future for humankind.īut blocking her way are the harsh totalitarian government that tries to maintain order through control, a band of rebel humans called the Voice who attack the government and any civilians in their way, and the Partials, bio-engineered beings who brought the virus in the first place.Īlong with her friends, Kira fights her way through each group as she struggles to find answers and save the soon-to-be born baby of her roommate, Madison.īut she soon realizes that not everyone is who they seem. Those few thousand whose immunity allowed them to survive try to eke out an existence on Long Island, N.Y. 485GA18M because no newborn has survived past three days in the last 11 years, due to a weaponized virus that wiped out most of the world’s population. "Partials," a science-fiction thriller by Orem author Dan Wells, begins with the death of a newborn, unceremoniously named No. " PARTIALS ," by Dan Wells, Balzer + Bray, $17.99, 480 pages (f) (ages 14 and up)
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