I also liked that the romance angle was very far from the forefront of the story there were more important things to do, and the characters buckled down and did them. But she quickly learns she needs to shelve her ideals in order to survive, an adaptation which really saved this book for me. But it is not long before Kira uncovers a number of stunning secrets, and finds herself in a race not only for Samm’s life but her own as she struggles to get to the bottom of what is really happening.ĭiscussion: Kira started out pretty darn annoying: clueless and naïve, like so many dystopia female protagonists. They are apprehended when they return to Long Island, and Kira is given five days to investigate Samm before the Senate executes him. Improbably, they succeed, and bring back Samm, a Partial about their own age. She asks a senator for permission to try to capture a Partial to see what makes them immune to the virus, but he refuses to grant it, so she rounds up some of her rebellious friends and they go off on the mission themselves. Kira Walker, age 16, is a medic-in-training, and is trying to come up with her own ideas to cure RM, especially since The Hope Act is about to be amended to lower the mandatory pregnancy age to 16. In addition, humans have enemies from within: an underground rebel group, “The Voice of the People,” objects to the methods of the Senate, and to the mandatory pregnancy rule (“The Hope Act”) dictating that all females age 18 and older must get pregnant as soon and as often as possible in the hope that a baby will be born immune to RM. But the two groups patrol each other’s perimeters, and maintain states of fear and readiness. Ever since the virus abated (except for attacking newborns), the Partials have been in a constant state of antagonism with humans, although no new attacks have taken place. It is believed that the Partials released the RM virus to take revenge on humans. After that war was won, the Partials – who look identical to humans – evolved and rebelled. The combat in the last war was carried out by a race of “Partials,” artificial humans created to fight, and genetically programmed to be stronger and faster. Humans have other threats to their survival as well. Nor have they been able to come up with a cure. The youngest human is 14 no baby lives, because it succumbs within 3 days to the RM virus, and humans have been unable to figure out why immunity is not transferred from the survivors to their children. They live on Long Island in New York, and are governed by twenty senators who represent different segments of the population.
Eleven years after the last war and devastating “RM” virus that was released, only 40,000 people are left in the world.
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