It's finally here! The New Year has begun! I guess this is my first review of the new year then! As I said in the previous one, I'll be updating a lot more frequently so you guys don't think I went off and hibernated for the winter. Although I wish I could because I don't want to go to school. Just me and my books forever and ever.
As you all now know about me, I somehow read a lot of books about the world ending. I don't know why. It just happens. Because of my now best friend introducing me to Ender's Game and the rest of that series, I began to love science fiction with a crazy passion.
And that's how I got here, reviewing a lot of science fiction stuff just because I like the themes in it and the recurring problems and solutions.
The cover-
During the Isolation Wars, a company called ParaGen provided both sides with the ultimate weapon called the Partials. They were virtually indestructible humanoid robots that only do their master's bidding. They could be outfitted with any human weapon and learn to use it in seconds. Give it a gun and enough bullets and a team of them could kill everyone in a whole city.
But as a side effect of being exposed to them, the Partials supposedly released a deadly virus called RM. It mostly affects newborn babies, taking over their bodies and killing them within days of birth. So the Senate passed the Hope Act. A law where any woman over the age of twenty and still in her child-bearing years had to become pregnant as frequently as possible. And the age limit has slowly been dropping. All in hope that one day, a child will be born immune to RM.
Kira is an apprentice to a doctor at her settlement's only hospital. She's sick and tired of just watching little babies die because they can't handle the disease. There are books and books filled with the names of babies that all have the same outcome. They die between the first day to first week. It's like they're all going nowhere in the battle against RM.
Kira has this very dangerously crazy idea that the Partials are the only hope against RM. Maybe there's something in them that can help in finding a cure. She wants to catch a Partial so she can study it and if not find the cure, learn something new about how to deal with this epidemic.
So she chooses the finest and most trustworthy team- her adopted sister Xochi and her best friend Marcus to come with her to Manhattan Island to capture a Partial and bring it back to Long Island to study.
But there is a force that has been halting their journey and it's not even on the side of the Partials.
There have been the systematic destruction of water towers, power plants and other vital resources that can only be attributed to a mysterious organization called the Voice. They want to scare the settlements into believing that the Partials aren't to blame for RM. And they couldn't be more correct.
When Kira, Xochi and Marcus bring back a live Partial, within a few days he begins to tell Kira that his species is dying too. Partials were programmed sterile, so they can't reproduce. And they were each given an expiration date. Each Partial was to live for exactly twenty years after its birth. This means that the ones programmed at the beginning of the war have already died and the others have probably five or less years to live. This makes her even more determined to find out what is the connection between RM, the Partials and humans. Whatever RM is, it's killing everything.
But once the Senate finds out that she is housing a Partial in the hospital, they give her a hard choice. Either they kill the Partial and she destroys her research or the Partial is kept in custody and they return to the way things used to be. Neither option seems particularly nice, so Kira breaks the rules and goes at it her own way.
Movie Rating- PG-13 for violence, brief bouts of strong language, some disturbing scenes
My thoughts-
The layout is very interesting. I couldn't stop reading it because this is the kind of thing I have thought about time and again. "What would humanity do if faced with extinction?" The Hope Act seems like a very logical choice, but I also would've gone about it Kira's way. Even though Samm (the Partial) would've killed them right away, he was fortunately understanding enough to help her keep both species alive.
It also shows the pros and cons of creating these kinds of super weapons. On one side, it may help win the war, but with something like RM, it could also jeopardize the entire human race.
I had gotten this book for a school thing and within the first night, I had read three quarters of the way through it. Just because the concept was so interesting.
I'm going to try and break away from this particular idea now, just because I want to expose myself to new things and not get hung up on only one idea. And I think I should have left this statement to my next review which is about a book that has a similar idea but a very different approach. And the funny thing is that I didn't even know about it when I picked up the book. I guess our minds always look for familiar things when selecting new books.
((There are two more books in the series. Ruins and Fragments. There is also a parallel novel called Isolation which I would also like to read.))
As you all now know about me, I somehow read a lot of books about the world ending. I don't know why. It just happens. Because of my now best friend introducing me to Ender's Game and the rest of that series, I began to love science fiction with a crazy passion.
And that's how I got here, reviewing a lot of science fiction stuff just because I like the themes in it and the recurring problems and solutions.
The cover-
During the Isolation Wars, a company called ParaGen provided both sides with the ultimate weapon called the Partials. They were virtually indestructible humanoid robots that only do their master's bidding. They could be outfitted with any human weapon and learn to use it in seconds. Give it a gun and enough bullets and a team of them could kill everyone in a whole city.
But as a side effect of being exposed to them, the Partials supposedly released a deadly virus called RM. It mostly affects newborn babies, taking over their bodies and killing them within days of birth. So the Senate passed the Hope Act. A law where any woman over the age of twenty and still in her child-bearing years had to become pregnant as frequently as possible. And the age limit has slowly been dropping. All in hope that one day, a child will be born immune to RM.
Kira is an apprentice to a doctor at her settlement's only hospital. She's sick and tired of just watching little babies die because they can't handle the disease. There are books and books filled with the names of babies that all have the same outcome. They die between the first day to first week. It's like they're all going nowhere in the battle against RM.
Kira has this very dangerously crazy idea that the Partials are the only hope against RM. Maybe there's something in them that can help in finding a cure. She wants to catch a Partial so she can study it and if not find the cure, learn something new about how to deal with this epidemic.
So she chooses the finest and most trustworthy team- her adopted sister Xochi and her best friend Marcus to come with her to Manhattan Island to capture a Partial and bring it back to Long Island to study.
But there is a force that has been halting their journey and it's not even on the side of the Partials.
There have been the systematic destruction of water towers, power plants and other vital resources that can only be attributed to a mysterious organization called the Voice. They want to scare the settlements into believing that the Partials aren't to blame for RM. And they couldn't be more correct.
When Kira, Xochi and Marcus bring back a live Partial, within a few days he begins to tell Kira that his species is dying too. Partials were programmed sterile, so they can't reproduce. And they were each given an expiration date. Each Partial was to live for exactly twenty years after its birth. This means that the ones programmed at the beginning of the war have already died and the others have probably five or less years to live. This makes her even more determined to find out what is the connection between RM, the Partials and humans. Whatever RM is, it's killing everything.
But once the Senate finds out that she is housing a Partial in the hospital, they give her a hard choice. Either they kill the Partial and she destroys her research or the Partial is kept in custody and they return to the way things used to be. Neither option seems particularly nice, so Kira breaks the rules and goes at it her own way.
Movie Rating- PG-13 for violence, brief bouts of strong language, some disturbing scenes
My thoughts-
The layout is very interesting. I couldn't stop reading it because this is the kind of thing I have thought about time and again. "What would humanity do if faced with extinction?" The Hope Act seems like a very logical choice, but I also would've gone about it Kira's way. Even though Samm (the Partial) would've killed them right away, he was fortunately understanding enough to help her keep both species alive.
It also shows the pros and cons of creating these kinds of super weapons. On one side, it may help win the war, but with something like RM, it could also jeopardize the entire human race.
I had gotten this book for a school thing and within the first night, I had read three quarters of the way through it. Just because the concept was so interesting.
I'm going to try and break away from this particular idea now, just because I want to expose myself to new things and not get hung up on only one idea. And I think I should have left this statement to my next review which is about a book that has a similar idea but a very different approach. And the funny thing is that I didn't even know about it when I picked up the book. I guess our minds always look for familiar things when selecting new books.
((There are two more books in the series. Ruins and Fragments. There is also a parallel novel called Isolation which I would also like to read.))
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