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estoy escribiendo esto mientras lloro, pero no lo malinterpreten. Quiza el final da para lagrimas (algunas de las mias son culpa de el), pero yo estoy llorando porque se me fue otra saga, y no una saga cuaquiera.
Partials fue uno de los primeros que lei. Con el vivi lo que es esperar años para la continuacion. Con el vivi lo que es amar a una protagonista. Vivi lo que fue la mejor historia post-apocaliptica (Monument 14 y The Maze runner le siguen).
Recomiendo esta saga a cualquier persona, ya sea adulto, adolescente o parcial (okno), porque es una historia que merece ser leida, porque en cada pagina se lee la esperanza, y no una ciega.
Ruinas es hermoso, igual que los otros libros, y ocupa un lugar especial en mi corazon. Me despido de la trilogia feliz. Muy feliz *mas lagrimas*
Partials fue uno de los primeros que lei. Con el vivi lo que es esperar años para la continuacion. Con el vivi lo que es amar a una protagonista. Vivi lo que fue la mejor historia post-apocaliptica (Monument 14 y The Maze runner le siguen).
Recomiendo esta saga a cualquier persona, ya sea adulto, adolescente o parcial (okno), porque es una historia que merece ser leida, porque en cada pagina se lee la esperanza, y no una ciega.
Ruinas es hermoso, igual que los otros libros, y ocupa un lugar especial en mi corazon. Me despido de la trilogia feliz. Muy feliz *mas lagrimas*
Overall a great read. It took me a while to finish, but I think that was because I was distracted with other books. Once I really committed to it I could not put it down!!! I would give it an A-. I do not feel like the star system is very accurate. If you are into end of the world apocalypse I highly highly recommend this series.
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
I thought this was a great finish to the Partials trilogy.
Read for the 2015 Reading Challenge: #11 A book with a one-word title.
4.5 Dan Wells took away the political and scientific plot lines we had in the first two books and completly embraced an emocional one in the middle of chaos and destruction and if that is not worth of acclaim, then nothing is. Both Partials and Humans are way too far away from the definition of "people", with the hopelessness that neither of them will survive, they have tilted to revenge and extreme solutions. This trilogy has the ending it deserved, with the moral we all need to remember. Great pace, outstanding characters, and beautiful finale. You'll end this book with a smile in the face and a tear in the eye.
”No basta con salvarnos. Tenemos que ser dignos de salvación.”
Si bien las tramas que me hicieron adorar el primer libro terminaron, la evolución para llegar a la situación de Ruinas es excelente. Así que cuando empiezas la lectura y te topas con gente proponiendo los planes más horribles y menos humanos para sobrevivir o vengarse, entiendes la situación emocional detrás de sus argumentos. Pero como Kira, no puedes más que tener la esperanza de que la buena voluntad y la paz, puede ganar por sobre la desesperación.
”Cuando la alternativa es la extinción, toda clase de horrores se vuelven aceptables.”
El libro cumple perfecto con su función en toda la extensión de la palabra. Como ejemplo de la desesperación que viene cuando ya no hay opciones. Y como final de una gran historia que confió en su trama desde el principio.
”Necesito salvar a todos. No puedo vivir con menos que eso. No dejare atrás a nadie más.”
Quiero hablar específicamente de nuestra protagonista, porque hay muy pocas que me gustan completamente. Y encabezando esa lista esta Kira Walker. Heroína optimista, con metas en la vida, determinación incansable y gran corazón. Sin miedo a sentirse débil, ni fuerte. Es un personaje que he querido desde el principio.
”No son malos…solo son el enemigo.”
La naturaleza humana siempre busca algo que odiar, algo que ver como “el enemigo”, este libro no tiene antagonistas reales. Ni te hace creer que los tiene. Tiene bandos simplemente.
“Si quieres sobrevivir en este mundo, tienes que dejar de preguntar por qué la gente trabaja en conjunto y empezar a hacerlo tú también.”
A pesar de que el final es un poco rápido, siento que todo el build up que hemos tenido le da sentido. Tuvo ciertas subtramas que me parecieron un poco de relleno, ya que no me pareció que se necesitaran para la resolución de la principal, Wells hizo un gran trabajo que los libros previos. Pero aun así esas pequeñas cosas no bajan mucho la calidad del libro. Sumando que la lección de humanidad al final pudo conmigo, completamente. *tears*
Además, ahora tenemos muchos POVs lo cual nos da una visión más amplia de lo que está pasando y eso me encanto. Y de esa forma llegas a conocer un poco más a muchos otros personajes secundarios o hasta terciarios.
Una gran historia post-apocalíptica, con excelentes bases, increíble desarrollo y hermoso final. Con una gran lección de igualdad. Recomendado para cualquiera que le guste una trama inteligente dentro del género.
“La nieve blanca cubría el suelo como un pergamino sin uso, borrando el viejo mundo y esperando que ellos escribieran uno nuevo en sus páginas.”
No hay nada mejor que un final abierto :’)
Las frases que puse hablan por si mismas sobre no solo este libro, si no la trilogía entera.
4.5 Dan Wells took away the political and scientific plot lines we had in the first two books and completly embraced an emocional one in the middle of chaos and destruction and if that is not worth of acclaim, then nothing is. Both Partials and Humans are way too far away from the definition of "people", with the hopelessness that neither of them will survive, they have tilted to revenge and extreme solutions. This trilogy has the ending it deserved, with the moral we all need to remember. Great pace, outstanding characters, and beautiful finale. You'll end this book with a smile in the face and a tear in the eye.
”No basta con salvarnos. Tenemos que ser dignos de salvación.”
Si bien las tramas que me hicieron adorar el primer libro terminaron, la evolución para llegar a la situación de Ruinas es excelente. Así que cuando empiezas la lectura y te topas con gente proponiendo los planes más horribles y menos humanos para sobrevivir o vengarse, entiendes la situación emocional detrás de sus argumentos. Pero como Kira, no puedes más que tener la esperanza de que la buena voluntad y la paz, puede ganar por sobre la desesperación.
”Cuando la alternativa es la extinción, toda clase de horrores se vuelven aceptables.”
El libro cumple perfecto con su función en toda la extensión de la palabra. Como ejemplo de la desesperación que viene cuando ya no hay opciones. Y como final de una gran historia que confió en su trama desde el principio.
”Necesito salvar a todos. No puedo vivir con menos que eso. No dejare atrás a nadie más.”
Quiero hablar específicamente de nuestra protagonista, porque hay muy pocas que me gustan completamente. Y encabezando esa lista esta Kira Walker. Heroína optimista, con metas en la vida, determinación incansable y gran corazón. Sin miedo a sentirse débil, ni fuerte. Es un personaje que he querido desde el principio.
”No son malos…solo son el enemigo.”
La naturaleza humana siempre busca algo que odiar, algo que ver como “el enemigo”, este libro no tiene antagonistas reales. Ni te hace creer que los tiene. Tiene bandos simplemente.
“Si quieres sobrevivir en este mundo, tienes que dejar de preguntar por qué la gente trabaja en conjunto y empezar a hacerlo tú también.”
A pesar de que el final es un poco rápido, siento que todo el build up que hemos tenido le da sentido. Tuvo ciertas subtramas que me parecieron un poco de relleno, ya que no me pareció que se necesitaran para la resolución de la principal, Wells hizo un gran trabajo que los libros previos. Pero aun así esas pequeñas cosas no bajan mucho la calidad del libro. Sumando que la lección de humanidad al final pudo conmigo, completamente. *tears*
Además, ahora tenemos muchos POVs lo cual nos da una visión más amplia de lo que está pasando y eso me encanto. Y de esa forma llegas a conocer un poco más a muchos otros personajes secundarios o hasta terciarios.
Una gran historia post-apocalíptica, con excelentes bases, increíble desarrollo y hermoso final. Con una gran lección de igualdad. Recomendado para cualquiera que le guste una trama inteligente dentro del género.
“La nieve blanca cubría el suelo como un pergamino sin uso, borrando el viejo mundo y esperando que ellos escribieran uno nuevo en sus páginas.”
No hay nada mejor que un final abierto :’)
Las frases que puse hablan por si mismas sobre no solo este libro, si no la trilogía entera.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
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
Ruins is the final book in the Partial Sequence and it concludes Kira Walker's journey in finding the RM cure for the humans and to figure out how to extend the Partial's expiration date. It's been a while since I last read [b:Fragments|13170596|Fragments (Partials, #2)|Dan Wells|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1352943797s/13170596.jpg|18349959] and I was a bit apprehensive to pick up this book, seeing as how I found Fragments to a very tedious book where very little happened. Thankfully, there's a lot more action in Ruins and the pace was a lot faster.
Kira Walker has surrendered to Dr Morgan's laboratory, so that the doctor can analyse her and figure out whether the cure for the Partial's expiration date is within Kira. Kira's a different model of Partial, a later model that wasn't designed for combat-use unlike the other models. The humans are starting to get geared up to fight back against the Partials as well--Delarose has managed to get her house on a nuclear bomb and she's travelling towards the White Plains, where the Partials live, in order to plant the bomb and get rid of as many of them as possible.
Samm is still with the small village that Kira and him had found in the previous book and, with the cooperation of the humans, is working to rehabilitate the Partials that they had found in Dr Vale's lab. Marcus is working with some other revolutionaries, to stop Delarose and to evacuate the humans from the nuclear fall-out in case they fail to stop the ex-senator.
Dan Wells has truly outdone himself with this book, with so many cogs working at the same time. I liked the different POVs that he's adopted in this book and I really can't see any other better way to show us the action that's happening in the different parts of their world. There are also multiple twists in Ruins, such as. I really liked how everything converged together at the end!
And, as usual, Wells doesn't shy away from asking the hard questions: given the state of affairs between the Partials and humans, if you could only choose one species, which would you save? And what does it really mean to survive--what do you want to survive? These are the hard questions that each character in the novel is posed with and has to consider at least once. Wells makes it very clear that we are all flawed characters, selfish and willing to do anything to survive but at the same time, we have the capacity to be selfless too, willing to sacrifice ourselves so that others may live on. These characteristics are found in both the humans the Partials.
The old cast of characters is back and I've really enjoyed my journey with them. Each of them has grown through some character growth, especially Kira Walker who's grown from a scared human girl to the leader of a revolution that aims to reunite Partials and humans so that both species will survive. There were two standout characters in this book for me, firstly Marcus because his jokes helped to liven up the doom and gloom tone of the novel.
The other standout character is Heron, a Partial who's been built for espionage and survival. Heron has also been somewhat of a mystery to me and it's very clear that she prizes survival above everything else:
This is life, thought Heron. Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live while the weak--the ones too small or too foolish to fight back--die in agony and blood. Kira wants a world of rabbits, safe in their warren, happy and communal and oblivious to reality, but the real world is out here. A hunter in the snow. Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.
However, she gains an understanding in this book that survival isn't all it's cracked up to be:
The wolf laid the rabbit on the floor and watched in maternal silence as four small cubs yipped and snapped at it, eager for a meal. The mother turned toward the entrance, looking straight at Heron, and her dark eyes gleamed green in the dim, reflected light.
Heron watched the children eat, and she cried.
With all that said, I did find that there were two issues I had with the book:
1.
2. This isn't as important in the grand scheme of things but the resolution of the love triangle irked me.
Overall, Ruins is a pretty decent conclusion to the Partials Sequence and I've really enjoyed the ride. This series is easily one of the better dystopian books that I've ever read and the author is definitely unafraid to ask difficult questions that would plague our species if such a scenario was ever to arise.
Kira Walker has surrendered to Dr Morgan's laboratory, so that the doctor can analyse her and figure out whether the cure for the Partial's expiration date is within Kira. Kira's a different model of Partial, a later model that wasn't designed for combat-use unlike the other models. The humans are starting to get geared up to fight back against the Partials as well--Delarose has managed to get her house on a nuclear bomb and she's travelling towards the White Plains, where the Partials live, in order to plant the bomb and get rid of as many of them as possible.
Samm is still with the small village that Kira and him had found in the previous book and, with the cooperation of the humans, is working to rehabilitate the Partials that they had found in Dr Vale's lab. Marcus is working with some other revolutionaries, to stop Delarose and to evacuate the humans from the nuclear fall-out in case they fail to stop the ex-senator.
Dan Wells has truly outdone himself with this book, with so many cogs working at the same time. I liked the different POVs that he's adopted in this book and I really can't see any other better way to show us the action that's happening in the different parts of their world. There are also multiple twists in Ruins, such as
Spoiler
the return of winter and the re-appearance of Kira's fatherAnd, as usual, Wells doesn't shy away from asking the hard questions: given the state of affairs between the Partials and humans, if you could only choose one species, which would you save? And what does it really mean to survive--what do you want to survive? These are the hard questions that each character in the novel is posed with and has to consider at least once. Wells makes it very clear that we are all flawed characters, selfish and willing to do anything to survive but at the same time, we have the capacity to be selfless too, willing to sacrifice ourselves so that others may live on. These characteristics are found in both the humans the Partials.
The old cast of characters is back and I've really enjoyed my journey with them. Each of them has grown through some character growth, especially Kira Walker who's grown from a scared human girl to the leader of a revolution that aims to reunite Partials and humans so that both species will survive. There were two standout characters in this book for me, firstly Marcus because his jokes helped to liven up the doom and gloom tone of the novel.
Spoiler
Not to mention how gracious he is when it came to the love triangle between him, Kira and Samm.The other standout character is Heron, a Partial who's been built for espionage and survival. Heron has also been somewhat of a mystery to me and it's very clear that she prizes survival above everything else:
This is life, thought Heron. Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live while the weak--the ones too small or too foolish to fight back--die in agony and blood. Kira wants a world of rabbits, safe in their warren, happy and communal and oblivious to reality, but the real world is out here. A hunter in the snow. Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.
However, she gains an understanding in this book that survival isn't all it's cracked up to be:
The wolf laid the rabbit on the floor and watched in maternal silence as four small cubs yipped and snapped at it, eager for a meal. The mother turned toward the entrance, looking straight at Heron, and her dark eyes gleamed green in the dim, reflected light.
Heron watched the children eat, and she cried.
With all that said, I did find that there were two issues I had with the book:
1.
Spoiler
The confrontation between Shon and the humans was a let-down. Here I was expecting some kind of epic conversation/fist-fight going down and then Shon gives in just because of Amrin's death. This ending felt a little rushed compared to the build-up from the rest of the novel and I just find it kinda disappointing.2. This isn't as important in the grand scheme of things but the resolution of the love triangle irked me.
Spoiler
Maybe Dan Wells just isn't good at writing about love in the mind of a teenage girl because Kira's reasoning was really unrealistic. I also didn't like how wishy-washy Kira was about Marcus and Samm. If it were up to me, I really don't think she deserves either one of them.Overall, Ruins is a pretty decent conclusion to the Partials Sequence and I've really enjoyed the ride. This series is easily one of the better dystopian books that I've ever read and the author is definitely unafraid to ask difficult questions that would plague our species if such a scenario was ever to arise.
challenging
dark
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm done. I read about a third and realized I don't care if anyone survives.
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
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
Forgot how long this is and yet still so enjoyable.