
Kira is a strong protagonist, who is passionate and also vulnerable. Babies are dying and Kira is obsessed with saving them.

Wells shows us a world with real characters who take readers on a high speed race with lots of twists and turns. The Senate has decried that all 18 year olds have to have babies in order to help save the human race from extinction.

The Partials, non-humans, have unleashed RM, a virus that has killed most of the world’s population. PARTIALS is the amazing tale of Kira Walker who lives in a dying world of our future. There’s been a string of dystopias out there with similar premises but PARTIALS breathes new life in this genre. Dan Wells, acclaimed author of I Am Not a Serial Killer, takes readers on a pulsepounding journey into a world where the very concept of what it means to be human is in question-one where our humanity is both our greatest liability and our only hope for survival.

But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them-connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there.

Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what's left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she's not content to stand by and watch. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials-engineered organic beings identical to humans-has decimated the population.
