The moment I started Fragments, I was immediately immersed back into the world that Dan Wells created.
If we're lucky, the third book will give us something really spectacular. Whereas Partials introduced the players in broad strokes and showed them making their tentative first moves, Fragments is all about setting up the sides' endgame plays. The advent of multiple points of view means we're in other characters' heads, and the narration helps give life to the thoughts of various characters, doing particularly well I thought with Marcus's snarky fatalism. Julia Whelan's performance continues to impress, improving if anything since Partials came out last year. And the lengths to which our heroes must go get a little more drawn out the farther they go, particularly when they are confronted with the choices others have made to save their side in the war. All the while, our characters are having to grow up and fill roles they'd never expected to fall to them. We have open warfare, an epic cross-country journey and some really tough choices to be made. The story pays off the promise of Partials, showing us with greater depth and breadth the world we'd gotten only tiny glimpses of before. Any reservations I may have had over Partials's plot were simply swept away by my enjoyment of Fragments. I liked Fragments enough to almost wish I hadn't, dooming myself to a long wait for the third book. I liked Partials enough to download Fragments as soon as I'd finished it. The second installment in the pulse-pounding Partials saga is the story of the 11th hour of humanity's time on Earth, a journey deep into places unknown to discover the means - and even more important, a reason - for our survival. But Kira's journey will take her deep into the overgrown wasteland of postapocalyptic America, and Kira and Marcus both will discover that their greatest enemy may be one they didn't even know existed. Meanwhile, back on Long Island, what's left of humanity is gearing up for war with the Partials, and Marcus knows his only hope is to delay them until Kira returns. Her companions are Afa Demoux, an unhinged drifter and former employee of ParaGen, and Samm and Heron, the Partials who betrayed her and saved her life, the only ones who know her secret. That the Partials themselves hold the cure for RM in their blood cannot be a coincidence - it must be part of a larger plan, a plan that involves Kira, a plan that could save both races. Kira has left East Meadow in a desperate search for clues to who she is. Kira Walker has found the cure for RM, but the battle for the survival of humans and Partials is just beginning.
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