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Violence
Some
Action violence and survival combat throughout in the post-apocalyptic register
Language
Barely any
Mild language throughout
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild romantic content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate psychological complexity: the ethics of extinction-level decisions and what survival justifies
What this book is about
Sixteen years after engineered humanoids called Partials released RM — a virus that killed 99.9% of humanity — the few surviving humans face extinction as no infant survives more than a few days. Medic trainee Kira believes the cure must lie with the Partials themselves, despite laws making contact illegal. Dan Wells's smart YA sci-fi is genuinely thoughtful about the ethics of survival, creating morally complex characters on both sides of the human/Partial divide.
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