Ruins audiobook

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 chapter of this book, I already had a bag of theories inside my pocket. Fragments left enough clues and cookie crumbs for any smart reader to figure things out on their own and I was pleased when majority of my theories were validated. The story started off slower than Fragments, but it wasn’t boring. The chapters switched through various point of views from our characters, and usually I don’t like this but here it worked perfectly. I got enough to get to know the secondary characters better and saw how much they've developed, but not too much that I wanted to skip over them and return to Kira. All of them were equally interesting and relevant to the plot, none of them were dispensable. In fact, my only complaint is I wish there were more Samm chapters. When the only alternative is extinction, an awful lot of horrors become acceptable. I love how the book tackled real issues that can actually occur if ever something like this really happens. Dan Wells posed relevant questions that will make the readers wonder and ask themselves the same things. As I read Kira struggle through very difficult choices, I found myself questioning my own ethics (that scene with Kira deciding whether or not to turn the knob was beautifully written and embodied all the important questions and the most crucial personal choice she had to make in the entire series). How far will you go? Morality, what is right and wrong? Does the end justify the means? Survival or humanity? How strong is your will to live? Somehow, when I imagined the Partials scenario really happening and I thought about how our race would most likely react and deal with it, the answer scared me. Survival is all we have. If we end we end, but if we live a second day there's always a chance, no matter how slim, that we can find a way to live a third, and a fourth, and a hundredth and a thousandth. Maybe the world kills us and maybe it doesn't, but if we give up, it's the same as killing ourselves. There were no major plot twists in this book (at least, none that I haven’t thought of yet), which actually surprised me since Fragments made my jaw drop in more than one occasion with its revelations. By the middle of the book, I knew there were only two ways in which the story could end: in an expectable but satisfying resolution or in a shocking but epic devastation. Not being sadistic or anything but I kind of hoped for the latter, you know, just to be different. Of course, it ended up with the predictable finish but I wasn’t at all disappointed because after being witness to every damned thing that has happened, you cannot hope for anything else. You see, what I love most about this series is that you understand the reason why everything is happening. You understand why the Partials and Humans hate each other, you get why they harbour so much rage and loathing… why they have the war. When both sides believe they’re fighting for the right reasons, it’s gonna be a hell of a task to stop them. You can’t really blame them. Both sides were equally guilty and they were all victims, it doesn’t matter who killed more. Death is death. By the third half of the book, both parties have lost and suffered so much that even I thought maybe dying was the only option left for all of them. See, that’s the reality of war. Nobody really wins.Three claps for this series and for Dan Wells' excellent execution.I'll end this with probably my favorite exchange of words in the entire book:"If my life had no meaning, there was no reason not to end it.""So you ended it?""So I gave it meaning."

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 think, we should all go to hell in mutually-assured destruction.This *could* be considered an old YA theme, and you'd be right, but this one doesn't pull the punches or shirk from asking the hard questions. It focuses on exactly that and hones away at it.I like that. At least for me, these questions more than any of the plot or the relationship stuff made the novel something very good. Personal preference. :)

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 work. This is just great stuff for sci fi fans.

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 Killer for a truly extraordinary read. Even if you're not so big on supernatural, or murder mysteries, that one will drag you in and won't let you go.Ruins begins where Fragments left off, with Kira Walker having surrendered herself to Doctor Morgan for study, and Samm having stayed behind in the Preserve to provide the RM cure for the humans there. Morgan's Partials have taken the island where the last remaining humans on Earth live, and the human resistance has gotten their hands on a nuke.When Kira discovers the true cure for both RM and the Partial Expiration, she escapes, knowing that Morgan will use what she has found to subjugate humanity. She sets out in search of other Partial factions to share what she has discovered.Meanwhile a mysterious figure called the Blood Man is making his rounds, murdering innocent Partials and Humans alike for biological samples. We've got an obligatory G.R.R.M. "Winter is Coming" reference, and there's a Partial killing bioweapon unleashed and causing further fractures between the two races making all hope of peaceful coexistence seem lost.The Good? I really enjoy the world that Dan Wells has created here. It's sci-fi, but no so out there that it couldn't actually happen in our future. The way he describes how the world has fallen apart in just a decade and a half without people is really well done. He obviously sat down and put a whole lot of thought, effort and research into what would happen if, all of a sudden, there were no more people.I really enjoy the characters in this book as well. They're all their own people, with unique personality traits and quirks, and visibly different ways of thinking and doing things. And the book itself is really well written too.The Bad? The ending, in my opinion, felt a little rushed. The resolution of the love triangle was definitely done by a guy, with zero fanfare whatsoever. It was just, oh, I choose you, let's go live happily ever after now, the end. Everything else seemed pretty rushed too. A lot of the book was spent on storylines that, frankly, just sort of took up space and didn't really serve much purpose to the overall plot. And then everything is wrapped up in like half a chapter at the end. I would have liked a little more ending and a little less people unimportant to the actual plot of the book wandering through the snow to little ultimate point or purpose. The book could have probably used another draft or two to tighten things up, and expand the climax and ending.All in all, it was a good ending to a great series. It rushed a bit to tie things up after spending a goodly portion of the page count devoted to less important side characters doing very little, but it got the job done. I highly enjoyed it, and definitely recommend this series to fans of Dan Wells, and those who enjoy well written Dystopian fiction. And, according to his Twitter feed, he's on his way back to John Cleaver for his next book. I certainly can't wait for that. In the mean time, check out the Partials series. You won't be disappointed that you did.Check out my other reviews.

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 tie in with an insane plot.There are some crazy developments in this book that really surprised me! However, I feel the series got repetitive and monotonous with strategizing, running, and trying to figure out how to save everyone. I did get bored at times, but the plot developments ultimately kept my interest.I really loved the main character Kira, although she did get annoying at times, I liked how she stayed true to her morals. Most of the other side characters I didn't feel very strongly about, but enjoyed their presence.The romance in this book is a miss for me, I just didn't really care about it hahaOverall, it's a good conclusion to a crazy series full of action, plot twists, science, and questions about humanity.

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 having her body tampered with so much? I know she’s a partial but still it should’ve at least hurt.Now I’ll just start out and say that what bothered me with this book was that instead of finishing all the stories we had been telling for the last two books, this one started a bunch of new ones. There are so many new plot lines that come into this book so instead of getting a satisfying ending we are left with a really rushed ending and we do not get a lot of our questions answered.For example after Kira leaves Dr. Morgan we have to follow her up to the IV territory. But then of course she gets captured (new, very long, plot twist). She meets Green (who I actually did love) and we have to see their long escape battle, then they have to trek back towards Long Island, they run into the monster thing telling people about winter etc. etc.Meanwhile back in Samm land, he’s woken up the partials and is donating pheromone. I actually enjoyed his section in Denver the most. I loved the way he demonstrated the humans in Denver meant the partials no harm by showing Calix would be more than happy to get them some candy. And then the big revelation that living with Partials would save human babies was a nice answer we’d been waiting for. But of course we’re also just waiting for Samm to meet up with Kira again.WHICH IS THE REAL PROBLEM I HAVE WITH THIS BOOK! I should not have to wait 80% of the book for it’s OTP to get back together again.So anyways, Kira is running around doing things that aren’t exactly moving the plot forward, and Samm is doing the journey that took the entire second book in a few undetailed chapters.Meanwhile we have crazy lady Delarosa with a nuke, the bloodman stealing everybody’s insides and the weird plot of Nandita trying to lead everyone to this secret lab which is an absolute failure. I don’t really understand why this was in the book because they never get to the lab, and there’s never any clarification at the end on if they solve this new partial virus, or why Isolde’s baby came out that way, and all we see of them in the end is them sailing down the river.Marcus on the other hand has a much more exciting story. One of the best scenes, hands down, was when his little group is being held by the White Rhinos and they’re trying to get the guard riled up so they can knock him out. But of course he’s supposed to hit Vinci and Marcus and his big mouth once again gets him into trouble and ends up being the one to get knocked out with the rifle. Another shining moment he had was when Samm showed up and Marcus told Kira if she didn’t kiss him he would. And then of course later one of my favorite quotes when Marcus tells Kira “Maybe you’ll die and I’ll end up with Samm”.I was really sad to see Vinci die. I was so relived when they caught Delorosa only to have that dramatic moment where they both choose the human race over their own lives and the partials.What I didn’t like was how bogged down the story got with all the different story lines. It just made the book drag until the end. And then with the peace talks being interrupted by the blood man. I do love the Heron finally found something she was willing to put before her own survival. That was very noble.But then in the end when Sam and Kira sort of devote themselves to each other right in front of poor Marcus. I felt so bad for him, but I did love how Calix was sort of right there for him.I guess in the end I just wanted more, even an epilogue. I would’ve liked to see if partials were still sterile after living with humans. I would’ve liked to see the new community they set up, or just Samm and Kira being happy since they’re hardly together the entire book. I would have liked to see this book get to the conclusion it did faster. There was too much running around in these subplots that the entire “battle” and the end felt so rushed.All in all I still thought it was a good book, and an ok ending to a good series. I give it 3 stars.

Muy buen final, muy emocionante y con mucha acción.Para mi gusto le faltó un epilogo y algunos hilitos me quedaron sueltos, pero me encantó y emocionó mil veces, no pued restarle puntos por eso ♥

**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 happened that surprised me.fI also loved most of the characters. In particular, Marcus. He is the only one who literally made me laugh out loud. He's honestly one of my favourite YA males and favourite side characters. I just wish there had been more from him.The ending was good but a nice little epilogue wouldn't have gone amiss. Overall not a bad series, don't know if it'll make the reread pile anytime soon though.

It took me nearly 2 months to get through the first too books. Got through this one in less than 24 hours.Content: language and violence

Wow! This has to be in my top 5 all time favorite dystopian series ever. The battle of the partials and the humans comes to a head, people die, struggles and challenges happen. Kira is our true heroine and will it be Samm or Marcus who wins her heart? Or maybe both? Will she find her father? Will she find her purpose? Does she truly have one? Can we all just get along?The answers are coming and I won't give them away here. The world building was just amazing and it felt so very real to me. Isn't that what a book should do? Absolutely! That's why we read them, and what I am always searching for when I read my next book, and the next. This one stays in my head still. This author has a way with words, with submersing you into the world he has built and the characters themselves. I highly recommend it to people who like YA dystopian fiction. Really anyone who likes any kind of dystopian sci-fi. It is up there with the best. I want more from this author.

You can also find this review here on my blog.A powerful and epic conclusion to a story that pushes the human race to their limit, and shows just how mighty the need to survive is, even if it goes against everything you thought you believed in.The same, ever engaging writing style pulls us back into this final book and makes it hard to want to leave. The pacing was a lot slower at the beginning, following Kira’s experimentation, and Samm working with the humans to keep them alive. However, it still picks up rather quickly as we start to follow quite a few new points of views scattered throughout this world. I feel like because we already have been introduced to all these characters in the first two books it makes the multiple perspectives easy to go along with. and this is coming from someone who hates multiple perspectives books. That being said, we do still mostly follow Kira. and wow is she going through a lot.Kira is one of those characters who is ever evolving and sometimes catches us by surprise with the actions she takes. I love how she is almost portrayed in the chosen one trope, but constantly struggles to find her meaning, and we come to realise that she was never the chosen one. She is the one doing all the heavy lifting, but it was never up to her to sort out the problems that were devised before she was born, she’s just the one who makes the others realise their potential.Although she is one of my favourite characters, i wasn’t too keen on the love triangle type thing she was caught in. I do like that Dan explains how you can love multiple people, without meaning to but i liked when the romance was farther into the subplot in the last two books.The overall conclusion and the story to get there was fascinating and so complicatedly simple in the end that it made for a brilliant and mind-boggling book. I won’t be forgetting this one any time soon, and i urge you all to read this series.

Oh thanks God! Love you Dan Wells for giving us a happy ending. I'm proud of you as a reader ^^ But I'm also thorn between a 4 and a 5 star. While I loved the ending, there was so much more I would have wanted. I might start off from the dedication. 'This books is dedicated to everybody you hate. Sorry. Life's like that sometimes.'You threw me off. That was the truest thing I read in a long time. PlotIt kind of moved slowly in the beginning. For the finale of a trilogy I usually prepare myself for a heart wrenching book full of battles and revelations. As the other two books it had a lot of go here and go there. I mean, half the book or even more of it is journey. There are countless of groups moving toward safety and they end up meeting through their escape. We have Samm's story, Kira, Marcus, Ariel (something I did not expect and did not like), and many more minor characters. After a few chapters I started hating the constant change of the POV. But it also gave way to a better understanding of the story.KiraShe's strong. I give you that. She's been kidnapped a few times, experimented on and she still holds herself together. I love her. Her character development was amazing. We see her growing up, from a scared teenager to a true leader. She puts her emotions away for later - I think that's because of the male author but anyway. She does her job. Eventually she realizes that she can't possibly save everyone but never gives up. She develops a few friendships, like Green(whom I loved from the beginning) but we hardly see any evolution on her 'love' side and that bugged me. It's amazing how the romance did not overcome the plot but it felt very left out. 'Maybe you'll die and I'll end up with Samm.'Wouldn't I have wanted to see that? Bromance on the horizon. Marcus and Samm? Hm, it does give me a few ideas. SammHe is my true hero. He goes from a robotic, man-made weapon and killing machine to a feeling human who's capable of love. I think he suffers the most beside Kira. They take the trophy for hardship. He is the first Partial to understand what is needed to be done to save the world. I loved seeing him struggle in the second book, trying to solve his confusing emotions that turned out to be love. He takes is upon himself the burden of saving humanity. Why? Because he trusts Kira, and he believes in her. '(...)you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.'Hell yeah. And he says he's just a 'guy'. He understands that coexistence is necessary for their survival. And yes I love his definition of love:'Love is when you have the opportunity of turning someone's feelings or trust or vulnerability against them, but you don't. You make promises you don't want to keep, but you keep them because they are right, you help people who can't help you back.'In the end I think Samm is the one who symbolizes humanity the best. Not people, humanity. There's a big difference. MarcusWell, this one made the book more enjoyable. His humor is somewhat contagious. 'But I warn you, I will probably cry when you hurt me, and you'll feel bad about it.' 'Get used to it. There's a lot more useless heroics where that came from.'Oh but I don't think those where 'useless heroics'. Marcus as well, as our two other mains changed a lot. He became a man. He survived a rouge year. He does save a lot of them. He gives a note of lightness to all the hellish apocalypse that's lurking around them. He is capable of grand speeches when he less expects it. 'People aren't mugs, we are clay. Living, breathing, thinking, feeling clay, and we can shape ourselves into anything we want.'I'm glad he had his own ending too. He was kind of pitiful in the ending if you know what I mean and I'm glad also that he did not die. Humorous people don't deserve to die. Minor charactersI have to say something because man, wasn't their presence overwhelming. We have Vale, Heron, Shon. I might have enjoyed the book more if we got to follow the main characters but here it is. Some of them were necessary. As Vale's, because he sets off the nuke. That was harsh. I did not expect it but a whole army of mad Partials wouldn't have helped Kira. Heron's Pov was interesting, because we finally get to see her emotional side. She is all about survival but in the end she understand that life, even hers, needs meaning. She learn that existing is not enough, you have to live. Ariel, she, I did not like. While she does everything in her power to help her sisters she's all about killing, killing, killing Nandita. You want to do it? Fine, but don't think about it a whole book. Overall, I did enjoy it. Very good ending. It had closure, something that many books lack.

In Dan Wells' Welt sieht es wirklich sehr düster aus. Die Partials sterben reihenweise wegen ihrem Verfallsdatum und bei den Menschen erkrankt jedes Neugeborene an der RM-Seuche. Zwar wurde ein Heilmittel gefunden und ein Kind gerettet, doch das hat unmittelbar mir dem Feind zu tun. So sind beide Spezies dem Untergang geweiht und doch bekriegen sie sich gegenseitig. Kira Walker ist überzeugt, dass es irgendwie einen Zusammenhang zwischen den Menschen und den Partials gibt und sie will nur eines: alle retten. Dafür legt sie sich sogar unter das Messer von Dr. Morgan und lässt eine Untersuchung, ein Experiment nach dem anderen über sich ergehen. Erst als die grosse Forscherin nichts findet, macht sich Kira wieder alleine auf die Suche.Wer die Partials-Reihe von Dan Wells kennt, weiss, dass er keine einfachen Bücher schreibt. Immer wieder rückt die Wissenschaft und die Forschung ins Zentrum und man erfährt vieles über seine postapokalyptische Welt.Wo in "Aufbruch" und "Fragmente" vor allem Kira und Samm im Mittelpunkt standen, greift er hier zu noch mehr Perspektiven. Es gibt so viele Handlungsstränge, dass man in jedem Kapitel an einem anderen Ort ist, jemand anderen begleitet. Zu Beginn ist dies recht anstrengend, doch der Autor zieht geschickt die Fäden, so dass all die einzelnen Geschichten schlussendlich perfekt zusammenlaufen. Hier zeigt Dan Wells wirklich, was er kann und präsentiert uns eine von Anfang bis Ende ausgefeilte Handlung. Als Leser muss man sich auf "Ruinen" einlassen, sich wirklich Zeit für die Lektüre nehmen, so dass man länger an der Geschichte dran bleiben kann. Dann kann man in Wells' postapokalyptische Welt eintauchen, wird vom aufwändigen und vielschichtigen Abschlussband gepackt. Das Buch ist bedrückend und schonungslos. Zwischenzeitlich kommt einem sogar der Gedanke, ob für einmal wirklich die Welt untergeht, so düster sieht es für die Partials und Menschen aus. Doch Dan Wells hat sich ein passendes Ende ausgedacht; kein spektakulärer Showdown, keine heile-Welt-Versprechungen und doch so, dass es einen zufrieden auf die Trilogie zurückblicken lässt.Fazit:komplex, bedrückend, schonungslos"Ruinen" ist der Abschlussband von Dan Wells' dystopischer Trilogie um den Kampf zwischen den Menschen und den genveränderten Partials.Einmal mehr muss man sich Zeit nehmen für Wells' Geschichte, denn sie ist komplex, vielschichtig und scheinbar hoffnungslos. Aber auch dieser dritte Band konnte mich mit einem eindrücklichen Setting und spannenden Fakten überzeugen, so dass "Ruinen" ein würdiger Abschluss für eine perfekt durchdachte Reihe ist.

Dan Wells ha sido mi favorito desde que leí I am not a serial killer, creo que tiene un gran don para hacer personajes bien divertidos y muy inspiradores.En la serie Partial tanto Kira como Heron, son las que más destacan, pero también amo los personajes de Sam y Marcus. Me encanto el final, sin mucho drama solo lo que tenía que pasar fue lo que pasó.Creo que lo que me encantó más es que esta serie tiene un final más sólido que la serie de John Cleaver que no sabemos si en verdad acabo o cada quien le pone el final que más quiera...esta tiene un fin y muy bueno. Yo estoy feliz.Las series que están concluyendo en el 2014 esta me gustó.