Fragments (Partials, Book 2)

****SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW****Fragments is the follow up to Partials and finds Kira out on her own looking for answers after she found a photo with Nandita, her father and her as a little girl outside a ParaGen building. On the back of the photo is a message - Find the Trust. Who is the Trust and what do they have to with Nandita and her father? Were they a part of this? And how did she know Nandita before the Break? She needs answers. So this is what Kira sets out to find.Along the way she meets Afa who, before the break, was the IT Director at ParaGen and has collected information about the company, the Partials, RM and the Trust among other things. Unfortunately Afa has been alone since the break and seems to have gone slightly mad having only small moments of lucidity where Kira can get useful information from him. She also meets back up with Sam and Heron and they join forces to travel, first to Chicago and then through the wastelands to Denver to find the answers she's looking for.In between their travels we get to see what's happening back on Long Island since Kira left. The human settlement is invaded by Dr Morgan - who it seems is more than meets the eye - looking for Kira. Dr Morgan believes that Kira holds the key to the Partials expiry date which is fast approaching for all of them. Marcus, Kira's boyfriend, ends up fighting in the war between the humans and Partials and comes up with an idea after he finds out that there are separate factions within the Partials that disagree with the methods that Dr Morgan seems to be employing. Can they join together to defeat Dr Morgan?This part of the trilogy is a race to find the answer to RM - although Kira knows that there is a cure there is no way to replicate it - and to the Partials expiry date. Kira finds herself torn between two worlds and loyalties as she realizes that she herself is a Partial (although a newer model than the others and very different). Should she think of herself as human still as this is all that she has known, or should she start to side with the Partials. She struggles with this throughout the book and finds herself wanting to save everyone. She wants all to survive and live in harmony together instead of fighting and warring with each other and looking for ways to get rid of the other side.The story makes you think about the work that was done in order to create the Partials in the first place. Just because we can do something does it mean that we should? Obviously this kind of technology isn't real but should we be trying to accomplish and work towards some of things that they were able to do in the future? Maybe, maybe not. It raises some interesting moral dilemmas.The growing relationship between her and Sam was lovely to read. Kira is confused over her feelings and Sam, being a Partial, does not know how to express or show emotions. He trusts Kira implicitly and would do anything for her. It takes a shock from someone else to finally verbalize his feelings but is it too late?This book answered a lot of questions but also raised some more - as all good series should. I cannot wait to read the final chapter and am desperate to see how both parties can get what they need and save the world. Will Sam & Kira find their way to each other? I hope so!!

This sequel to Partials has Kira and Samm heading across the US with Afa, a mentally damaged IT genius and Heron, the partial spy model, to find a solution to their assorted problems. Meanwhile back at the island, Dr Morgan and her gang are piling the pressure on Marcus and the remaining humans. Or are they...?Characters were brilliantly illuminated in this book. There were fewer surprising plot and character segues, but such depth to the likes of Samm and the people in Denver that I didn't miss that (too much).I can't honestly say that I've read any other books that are like the Partials series, despite them being jammed indiscriminately into the modern 'YA dystopian' genre. They're adventure stories set in an apocalyptic future, with an interesting and (sometimes very) complex DNA-based plot. Recommended to all.

So this is the final book in the series, it reconnects Books 1&2 and builds on that to produce what we know the only solution is going to be.But the suspense is kept alive with individual deaths and challenges and the unexpected arrival of the Blood Man create a more complex climax than you would otherwise get.All three books are a good read.

Five stars *****Usually in the second booksbofba series I find that they fizzle out and fade compared to the first. But Fragments kept me interested and on the edge of my seat waiting in anticipation for what was to happen next. It was unpredictable and the writing was amazing! Loved it!

Better than Partials, Fragments is building up pace and opening up characters as they embark in a toxic wasteland to find out the cure to both humans and partials. The last few pages were the best, where we finally see a glimpse of what has been building between Kira and Samm from the first book. Cant wait for the 3rd and final installment in the trilogy!

I love the threads of the main characters throughout this book. The story is fast paced and I raced through it only to discover we are left hanging for the next instalment. What will happen to Marcus? What will happen if Nandita uses her chemical trigger? Will Samm and Kira ever get together?

Terrible series!

you need to read all three of these, worth the effort, well written, good story with twists.