orfhlaithxo's review
5.0
FANTASTIC book series! I wish this was a movie. I loved the ending, which I wish would have ended with a bigger bang but I was happy.
traceybookclub's review
5.0
4.5/5
Finally a YA trilogy with a good ass ending
If a Partials flick ever gets greenlit, y'all better cast me as Heron
Finally a YA trilogy with a good ass ending
If a Partials flick ever gets greenlit, y'all better cast me as Heron
rachiebeeee's review
3.0
Really sad to say I was disappointed with the ending, thought we would see more spectacular twists and turns. Glad I finished the trilogy but wishes for much more.
sammiruiz24's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
novelheartbeat's review
4.0
“Waging war is the easy part – making peace will be the hardest thing we’ve ever done.”
Dan Wells is a pro at storytelling. He brings the world to life! It’s always so easy to imagine the story as real because everything is so convincing. The world & setting is by far my favorite part of this entire series – the world building is cinematic!
“You weren’t ‘designed’ to cure RM, but you did it anyway. You weren’t designed to cross the toxic wasteland, but you did that, too, and then you escaped from I don’t know how many bad guys, and crossed through the middle of a war zone, and while every other group of weary, bloodied refugees is getting smaller and smaller, yours is getting bigger. You’re teaching people, and you’re recruiting people, and it’s not because you were built that way, or because you had some kind of glorious destiny to fulfill, but because you’re you. You’re Kira Walker. You’re not going to save the world because you’re the chosen one, you’re going to save it because you want to save it, and nobody in this world works harder for what they want than you do.”
I love this quote, because it describes her perfectly! She took so much on her shoulders and it never broke her. She stayed strong and did what she had to do no matter what. She never gave up on peace when everyone else thought it was a lost cause.
My one complaint: Cat killing. If you didn’t already see my discussion about this, it’s the one thing in literature that I can’t handle, however ‘realistic’ it may be. I could have done without reading about a cat being hunted and skinned and eaten, thank you very much.
I wasn’t too thrilled about the love triangle, either. It was kind of inevitable that it would come together, but still. I felt bad for Marcus, yet at the same time he really earned my respect with the way he handled it. I loved him for that! Kira, not so much. It irritated me that she thought she was “in love” with two different guys at the same time. That’s not how love works in my opinion. You may love them both, sure, but you’re not “in love” with either of them if you want someone else…
I have to admit that Heron earned my grudging respect, and I kind of felt bad for her. Also, I thought it was awesome that the Partials could share dreams! And the gene-modded monsters were totally creepy.
Overall, I liked the way everything turned out in the end. It was a satisfying finale to a great series!
Favorite quotes:
“Love is when you have the opportunity of turning someone’s feelings or trust or vulnerability against them, but you don’t. You make promises you don’t want to keep, but you keep them because they’re right; you help people who can’t help you back. [...] Love is when you find something so great, so…necessary, that it becomes more important to you than your own goals, than your own life – not because your life has no meaning without it, but because it gives your life a meaning it never had before.”
“It’s love, and love doesn’t weigh its options and pick the best one – love just wants things, and it doesn’t know why, and it doesn’t matter why, because love is the only explanation love needs.”
ASSESSMENT
Plot: 4/5
Premise: 5/5
Writing style: 5/5
Originality: 5/5
Characters: 4/5
World-building: 5/5
Pace: 4/5
Feels: 3/5
Cover: 4/5
taraschn's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
ashleyav23's review against another edition
4.0
Se quedó con muchas cosas inconclusas y algunas cosas que no me gustaron del todo, pero en general, amé demasiado está trilogía.
antidietleah's review
2.0
I'm kinda over the YA dystopian triology thing. The first book was really interesting, the second was entertaining, and this one just seemed to drone on and then the ending seemed really rushed. I think a lot of it had to do with my mindset reading the book. And the fact that I'm crushing on the Lunar Chronicles right now and there are some similar concepts playing out that I prefer in that series. Whatevs, glad to be done.
jessring's review
4.0
In YA dystopian trilogies, I've felt let down by the third book. Even in series that I thought had promise, the last installation has either left me raging or feeling meh. Thank you, Dan Wells, for breaking that streak. The ending felt a bit rushed but, as an end to the series, it felt complete. Great world building and storytelling. My only gripe is the love triangle and how it was resolved. I hate love triangles to begin with and this one didn't give me any warm fuzzies.
I would recommend the series to dystopia fans and definitely don't skip the novella, Isolation.
I would recommend the series to dystopia fans and definitely don't skip the novella, Isolation.
gmvader's review
3.0
The covers for these books are probably the most unimaginative covers possible. If I wasn’t a fan of Dan Wells I never would have read these books.
Ruins is a good end to this trilogy. It’s more gruesome and violent and filled with more drastic decisions. Kira and her friends are faced with the world ending again as the Partials invade the human settlement on Long Island in a hope of finding the expiration that they are all rapidly approaching and the humans retaliate with unmitigated force as they face another kind of extinction themselves.
Kira has discovered the cure for both their problems but she just has to make somebody listen to her before they kill each other.
This is an exciting novel and a good end for the trilogy with a satisfying conclusion. Dan Wells throws some horror elements into this book, some of them gruesome and others terrifying and that is where Dan Wells shines. He is always at his best when he’s scaring the reader into having nightmares.
The relationships are not quite as believable. There’s not enough emotion and too much talking about it to feel real.
There isn’t much more to say. This is the conclusion of a trilogy and Wells mostly sticks the landing. There are some frustrating characters that make some unfortunate choices and there are some wonderful characters that keep the book interesting and entertaining to the end.
I liked this series. It had a good premise that builds some tension right form the start. Dan Wells taught me in the first book that medical lab work could be tense and in this book he taught me about character choices.
My biggest peeve with this book, though, is the magic of genetics. In the second book the use of computers was so outside the realm of how computers work that it was completely unbelievable. This book has characters doing genetics to change the weather and create diseases and heal themselves and live in toxic wastelands and breathe underwater and kill the human race and make people live only eighteen years and eventually it felt like magic rather than science. There was a team of geneticists that can do pretty much anything they want, and in a very short period of time (a few months) and it continually popped the balloon from which I had suspended my disbelief. After falling enough times I gave up and stayed on the ground.
The tension is real, though, and this wraps up a series that I have enjoyed reading.
Ruins is a good end to this trilogy. It’s more gruesome and violent and filled with more drastic decisions. Kira and her friends are faced with the world ending again as the Partials invade the human settlement on Long Island in a hope of finding the expiration that they are all rapidly approaching and the humans retaliate with unmitigated force as they face another kind of extinction themselves.
Kira has discovered the cure for both their problems but she just has to make somebody listen to her before they kill each other.
This is an exciting novel and a good end for the trilogy with a satisfying conclusion. Dan Wells throws some horror elements into this book, some of them gruesome and others terrifying and that is where Dan Wells shines. He is always at his best when he’s scaring the reader into having nightmares.
The relationships are not quite as believable. There’s not enough emotion and too much talking about it to feel real.
There isn’t much more to say. This is the conclusion of a trilogy and Wells mostly sticks the landing. There are some frustrating characters that make some unfortunate choices and there are some wonderful characters that keep the book interesting and entertaining to the end.
I liked this series. It had a good premise that builds some tension right form the start. Dan Wells taught me in the first book that medical lab work could be tense and in this book he taught me about character choices.
My biggest peeve with this book, though, is the magic of genetics. In the second book the use of computers was so outside the realm of how computers work that it was completely unbelievable. This book has characters doing genetics to change the weather and create diseases and heal themselves and live in toxic wastelands and breathe underwater and kill the human race and make people live only eighteen years and eventually it felt like magic rather than science. There was a team of geneticists that can do pretty much anything they want, and in a very short period of time (a few months) and it continually popped the balloon from which I had suspended my disbelief. After falling enough times I gave up and stayed on the ground.
The tension is real, though, and this wraps up a series that I have enjoyed reading.