Partials. Now here was a book I could sink my teeth into. Yes, if I had read a hard copy and not an ebook version, I would have grasped it firmly in my jaws and torn out the first quarter of the book and discarded it. Then I would have nothing negative to say about it.
What I'm getting at is that it starts out much too slow. I read the first quarter of it and stopped, promising myself that I did not have to finish it if I didn't want to. Then I started reading something else. Then I forgot what Partials was about. A few months later I saw the title on my kindle and thought it looked interesting, only to discover I had already started it! By the time I realized it was a book I had chosen not to finish, the action had started and I really dug in!
So, people created a super race to pretty much be slaves. AND THEY REVOLTED?!?!?! Wow, big surprise. And now humans can't reproduce and the partials are dying out. And Kira, our protagonist, is the only person with a soul, apparently, who feels some empathy for the partials (whom we see in the character of Samm). I'm totally hooked. We get to see Government Gone Wild (is that available on Blu-Ray?) and get to feel like we're sitting in on one of Dr. House's cases as Kira's work always seems like it's just about to work....and doesn't.
And the best part??? IT'S A STAND-ALONE NOVEL!!! Wait, what? It's not? Oh, well-played YA multi-book series trap, you've caught yourself another one. Dan Wells, did you jump in that pit, or were you pushed?
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