Book: Ruins by Dan Wells (Third and Final book in the Partials series
Genre: Scifi, Dystopian, YA
Since this is the third and final book in the series, if you haven’t read the series yet, but plan to, you’ll probably want to skip this review, unless you really have a thing for spoilers 🙂
You can read my reviews of the first book Partials, and the second book, Fragments by clicking on the underlined names.
When we left Kira and Samm in the end of Fragments, they had both given themselves up as sacrifices of sorts, to two different causes. A great war is looming on the horizon, with both humans and partials risking everything and on the verge of extinction. Kira believes she can stop both the war and the extinction, but she is running out of time.
I really hope somebody makes this series into movies. It would be great. It’s different enough from series like The Hunger Games or Divergent that it would be bringing something new to the movie entertainment scene, but it has a really fantastic plot, and follows the undeniably popular teenagers-saving-the-world theme. Throughout all three books, there’s a recurring question of what exactly constitutes humanity. Can the partials really be considered humans? If they can’t be considered humans, do humans have the right to eliminate them all on a whim? I think it’s a really interesting question, and one that was solved in this book by (possible SPOILER) the realization that the survival of both species is dependent on their peaceful coexistence.
After raving earlier about how thrilled I was that Dan Wells skipped the cliche teenage love triangle, I’m a little disappointed to admit that there is a little of that drama in Ruins. I don’t understand why it’s so popular. It drives me nuts. That said, it wasn’t overdone and overdramatic in Ruins. They all talked about it, resolved their differences, and moved on. Now, WHY it even had to be an issue in the first place is beyond me. I think it would have been perfectly within the realm of reason to just let the whole relationship with Marcus and Kira remain dropped, and actually let him move on without the drama of a “Will she pick Samm or Marcus?” conundrum. That’s just my two bits.
Overall, this was a great ending to a great trilogy. If you like YA, dystopian, or scifi type books, I would definitely give this series a go!
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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