Hard to say what went wrong here without spoilers, and maybe I'll add them later. For now, I'll say that this didn't quite stick the landing.

War, Blood, Death. This is dystopia.Ruins achieved everything Allegiant and Mockingjay failed to deliver as trilogy enders. THIS is how you end a series. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, The Partials Sequence is one of the most underrated recent YA science-fiction and dystopian series today. Dan Wells is a great story teller and an excellent world-builder, and he never disappointed me throughout the three books (four, if you count the Isolation novelette).Before I started the first cha...

2.5 stars - SpoilersMeh, I was bored through a lot of it, the plot and majority of the characters didn't capture my attention until well into the second half. There were a few too many parts that were dragged out, generic, and predictable.-Summary: Partials and humans still dying and at war. Everyone desperate to save their own species — humans trying to find a cure for RM and partials want to find a way to stop their expiration date. -The beginning was slow and uninteresting, and all the variou...

IT HAS A TITLE AND A BOOK COVER.OH MY GOODNESS. WHOA. GIMME IT NOW.

Fairly satisfying end to the series, still focusing on the ethics of the situations more than little things like action, but that's fine because the tension is all right there for us. The reveals really came to a nice head in this one, with serious choices needing to be made, and it really isn't all about the nuke in the background or even in the foreground.It's about whether either species should continue to live, whether all the species could be considered one, or, as everyone else seems to th...

While i loved this series as a whole, i find this specific book a bit disappointing.The world building we found in the previous books is consistent. Dan Wells is master of atmosphere. The depicting was so genuine that at times i had memories of places i have never saw in real life. Amazing. There is also a philosophical aspect of this series. The musings about humanity, the age old question of what makes us human?,  consequences of playing god, all this introduced as someones monologue

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 ha...

That cover...

I can't believe that I am giving this book a 1 star review but here it is. The book fell flat on its face and never got up. I admit that after 60% of the way I was just skimming because I was incredibly bore. Tons of things were happening but for some reason I could just not muster enough emotion to care.The plot was a convoluted mess and all the different POV's got confusing and annoying. This book could have been 200 pages shorter if all the excess had been cut out. I also just don't buy that

RuinsBook 3 of the Partials SequenceBy Dan WellsA Review by Eric AllenI had a great deal of expectation coming into this book. I expected it to be yet another example of why Dan Wells is one of my favorite authors. And I was not disappointed. Ruins finishes out the Partials trilogy, tying up many loose ends, and leaving a few loose to keep you thinking about it after you've finished. If you're not familiar with the works of Dan Wells, I highly recommend you pick up a copy of I Am Not a Serial Ki...

This is a pretty decent conclusion.The series brings up many questions and mysteries and I feel like almost all of them were answered and explained. However, there are some aspects that I'm still fuzzy on.I liked how everything wrapped up and I am happy with the ending. This series focuses more on the question "what does it mean to be human?" and deals more with morality and approaches many situations from a psychological view. There are definitely heavy themes introduced and I enjoyed how those...

A fantastic ending to the gripping trilogy about life at the end of the world. Hearing the numbers here really freaked me out. A few thousand humans left in the entire world. Two hundred thousand Partials (super soldiers built by humans, now turned into the human race's enemies), and their self-destruct is about to go boom. A bare handful of people know how to save everyone, but they have to cross wastelands and fight genetically modified enemies . . . and even then, they don't know if it will w...

So we pick up the story right where we left off. Kira is off with Dr. Morgan being her human test subject, Samm is still in Denver, where he has volunteered to be the humans source of the cure and the people of East Meadow are still under a partial occupation.Right off the bat one thing I didn’t like was how nonchalant Kira was about being the test subject. They mentioned all the biopsies, spinal taps, and procedures so casually and then when she decides to leave she’s off and running after havi...

This is a really good ending to a great series!Plot: So the plot moves a bit slow in the beginning but thats because the reader is getting caught up on what is happening after the second book. After that, its takes off into lots of action and drama. Every little detail is explain nicely and carried into the new chapter well. I don’t think there is ever a dull moment in the book.Love/Friendship: We do get point of views from Kira as well as Sam and a few other characters. Each point of view is we...

I wonder what the tittle will be. First Partials then Fragments what could be next SEGMENTS maybe?Update: Ruins? Really? That's the title? It doesn't really go with the 'partials' pieces things. I guess it does in a way. Oh well I guess i'll just have to suck it up and deal with it. I'm probably going to love it anyway. Update: Still no darn release date? Really?!?!?!? Come on man!!!

Best of the series. Loved how it ended. The idea of gene mods is fascinating as is the idea of sensing moods and intentions through pheromones. Wow the father figure was creepy! Still shuddering just thinking of him.

**No spoilers**I really enjoyed this conclusion to the series. There was a good amount of action throughout to keep me wanting to read on apart from a couple of places when they were travelling. When they are travelling there just seems to be pages of just uninterrupted description sometimes and it just makes me lose interest a bit.One thing I really appreciated was not knowing what was going to happen. There are many times when reading that I can guess what is coming, but so many things happene...

Warning: Minor Spoilers Ahead.... Fear is only as deep as the mind allows. - Japanese proverbDan Wells completes me. The man also scares me since he is not kind to his characters. This fear was further cemented after reading the dedication page: "This book is dedicated to everybody you hate. Sorry. Life's like that sometimes." Whaaa? Mind games, man. Mind games. I was ready to curl up into a fetal position after that. But no, it was a great ending to a great series. At least it was for me becau...

If anything happens to Samm I'm going to throw this across the room!

I'll start by saying I'm a fan of Dan Wells, I really enjoy his style and the sense of humour and fierce determination he brings out in some of his characters. Unfortunately that wasn't enough for me to rate this higher than 3 stars. While I loved the first two entries in this series, both receiving 5 star ratings from me, I couldn't help being rather underwhelmed by its conclusion.In Fragments I enjoyed the introduction of additional POVs, here I felt the numerous POVs chopped the story up into...