Nocturnal Book Reviews

I'm on the fence about this book. I liked it, and at the same time I wished it rose up to the challenge of characterisation and world-building as I'm not a big fan of a sketchy world and oversimplified characters.

Partials is a fast read, a lot of it to do with teens going back and forth between warring territories like they had all the training in the world to do something that seasoned soldiers are not risking to do or plotting against their government. O-Kay...

The research into the virus is a bit weird. It's like the author is trying to make it accessible to preschoolers by calling its parts funny names, but it doesn't really work that way.

Partial boy is quite interesting, but again his otherness and way of acting and thinking is not explored enough. The only truly good thing about this book? There is no love triangle. However there is no real emotional conflict as well, so for me this was a book in between, a book, which if only it had been more assertive would have been wonderful.

I liked it initially but my enthusiasm slightly diminished after a while. Still, a good read.