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Partials: Book 2

Fragments (2013) (edit title/settings)

by Dan Wells (Author) (edit contributors)

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Kira Walker has found the cure for RM, but the battle for the survival of humans and Partials is just beginning. Kira has left East Meadow in a desperate search for clues to who she is. That the Partials themselves hold the cure for RM in their blood cannot be a coincidence—it must be part of... read more

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Convinced that Kira Walker is the key to solving the Partials experation date, Doctor Morgan, leader of one of the Partials factions leads an assault on the last human community on Earth, capturing their entire island and taking every human that can be found prisoner. She demands that Kira,... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Convinced that Kira Walker is the key to solving the Partials experation date, Doctor Morgan, leader of one of the Partials factions leads an assault on the last human community on Earth, capturing their entire island and taking every human that can be found prisoner. She demands that Kira, who has disappeared, give herself up, executing one hostage a day to draw her out.

Meanwhile, Marcus, Kira's one-time future husband, organizes a peace envoy to another Partials faction to gain aid in fighting Morgan's troops on the island. Whilst he sues for peace and alliance, walking right into the figurative lion's den, hidden forces of the human Defence Grid make guerilla attacks upon the Partials occupation forces, and try to salvage a nuclear warhead from the wreckage of the last human fleet that the Partials destroyed.

Kira, Samm, and one of his friends that defected with him named Heron, set out west to find the Trust, those who lead the Partials, and may just have been the scientists that created them in the first place. Their goal is to obtain both the cure for the RM virus that kills any and all human children born, and to remove the Partials expiration date. Without the Partials, the human population will die out in a single generation. Without the Humans, the Partials may never find a cure for their own expiration dates. Each group cannot survive without the help of the other, and yet they are locked together in war. It is Kira's hope that investigating the headquarters of Paragen in Denver she can find the solution to the problem, save BOTH sides, and stop the war once and for all. Upon reaching Denver, they find another community of humans that have survived the end of the world, living in the shadow of the old Paragen headquarters. It seems a paradise where one of the Trust has created a vaccine against RM, and children are born without fear of it. Kira is overwhelmed, knowing that she has found what she is looking for. But under the surface there may be something far more sinister at work, and the purpose for her own existence may be called into question.

Characters edit see section history

  • Kira Walker: Main character who found out she was Partial at the end of Partials. Her father, Armin Dhurvasula worked for ParaGen, he did the pheromone system
  • Samm: Partial who helped Kira and joins her quest
  • Heron: A partial who also comes with Kira and Samm. Severely distrusts Kira.
  • Afa Demoux: A recluse Kira finds. He believes that he is the last human in the world. Was an IT (information technology) director for ParaGen. Described as overweight, dark skin, and he walks almost like a waddle, childlike, 55 years old
  • Hector: Partial
  • Adrian: Samm's old sergeant
  • Lieutenant Colonel Richard Cornwell: Partial. Reached his expiration date
  • Wallace: Partial. Looks about 18 years old
  • Dr. McKenna Morgan: Partial scientist. Specialist in bionanotechnology and human augmentation. Worked for ParaGen
  • Marcus Valencio: Kira's boyfriend
  • Nadita Merchant: Kira's adopted guardian. Worked for ParaGen. She and another guy, Graeme Chamberlin, were working on something called the Failsafe
  • Hobb: senator
  • Erin Kessler: One of the former senators who'd managed to weather the scandal and maintain her position. Xochi's adoptive mom
  • Owen Tovar: Old leader of the Voice and is one of the senators now
  • Cameron Weist: sentenced to a life of hard labor on the Stillwell Farm
  • Marisol Delarosa: sentenced to a life of hard labor on the Stillwell Farm
  • Isolde: Adoptive sister of Madison and Kira, works as Senator Hobbs assistant. Pregenant with Hobb's child
  • Nurse Hardy: head of maternity
  • Asher Woolf: Replaced Weist as the representative from the Defense Grid
  • Xochi Kessler: Friend and housemate of Kira, daughter of Senator Kessler. She is a music lover and a great cook. She hates Senator Kessler.
  • Private Lucas Cantona: a soldier
  • Mr. Haru Sato: Madison's husband. 22 years old
  • Madison Sato: Kira's adopted sister and best friend, also wife of Haru.
  • Arwen Sato: Madison and Haru's baby. The first human child in almost twelve years to survive the ravages of RM
  • Sandy: Maternity nurse. Arwen's personal nurse
  • Dr. Skousen: Head of the hospital; member of the Senate
  • Duna Mkele: "Intelligence officer". Has free access to the Senate, and some measure of authority over the Grid
  • Izzy: farmer
  • Bryan: farmer
  • Ariel McAdams: Nandita's first adopted child, had ran away from her house years ago and lived by herself on the south side of East Meadow, but after her infant died she'd left East Meadow altogether.
  • Private Kabza: Add a description of this character.
  • Vinci: Partial. Rearguard watchman
  • Kioni Trimble: Member of the trust. Leader of B company
  • Mandy: Partial
  • Diadem: Partial doctor
  • Calix: A human survivor in Denver. Hunter
  • Bayley: Human child. Nine years old, curly black hair
  • Laura: the mayor of the other surviving human community in Denver
  • Dr. Cronus Vale: Worked for ParaGen. His background in biotechnology made the cure possible. Built microbes that ate waste products.
  • Phan: A human survivor in Denver. Hunter
  • Mohammad Khan: Isolde's baby. The first human/Partial hybrid
  • Nandita Merchant
  • Armin Dhurvasula
  • Jayden
  • Bobo
  • Jerry Ryssdal
  • Williams
  • Grant
  • Graeme Chamberlain
  • Galen
  • McKenna
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “Sometimes you have to put the present through hell to get the future you want.”
    Kira
  • “Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.”
    Heron

Setting & Locations edit see section history

Organizations edit see section history

  • ParaGen: Created the Partials to fight in wars. Before they created biosynthetic organisms they got its start in biotech, making genetic modifications for humans - they'd fix congenital defects, improve people's strength and reflexes, even do cosmetic mods. They also created Watchdogs - hyperintelligent dogs bred for battlefield assistance - they're bigger and tougher and capable of basic speech.

First Sentence edit see section history

"Raise a glass," said Hector, "to the best officer in New America."

Table of Contents edit see section history

Part 1
1-13
Part 2
14-30
Part 3
31-37
Part 4
38-50

Glossary edit see section history

  • Partials: built to be stronger and faster than humans and were to fight for them in the isolation war.They released the RM virus which wiped out the population.
  • RM: a virus
  • The Trust: Scientists who made the Partials and the RM virus. The Partial generals follow the Trust. Created by Dhurvasula, Ryssdal and Trimble. They wanted to build a new world, and they knew they were destroying the old one to do it.
  • Failsafe: RM created by ParaGen, under the direction of the government, as a way to control the Partial army

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 2 of 3 in Partials. (standard series)

Preceded by Partials.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Dan Wells (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Country: USA
Publication Date: February 26, 2013
ISBN: 978-0062071071
Page Count: 576

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Publisher's Note: 14+

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Isolation
  • Partials

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