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Where: Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Salt Lake CityĮmily W. What: Dan Wells and Robison Wells book signing Where: Barnes and Noble, University Crossings Plaza, 330 E. There is also a slight amount of sexual tension. There is a smattering of curse words throughout 'Ruins' as well as almost constant battle scenes that are filled with descriptions of violent injuries and deaths. And the omnipresent threat of mastermind scientists who feel a genetic cleansing/Earth reset may be the only answer makes every decision and death that much more meaningful. Wells also explores what it means to be a “good guy” and a “bad guy” as characters make decisions between ending their own lives and ending the world.

One character, the Partial named Samm, after finding out another genetically enhanced character has almost no emotions, wonders why anyone would create a person then take everything away that makes that individual a person. But Wells still finds time to insert mini-moral lessons throughout the book. Like an action movie, Wells’ 'Ruins' has a battle sequence followed by a dire situation, followed by more intense gunfights and so on, leaving the characters, and the reader, often out of breath. The humans are racing against time as well, as they now understand that the Partials' existence is what keeps newborn humans alive, thus ensuring humanity’s future.Īnd then there is that nuclear bomb set to go off at any moment. Partials, those of the genetically engineered super-species, far outnumber the humans but are suddenly mysteriously dying. These and other moral dilemmas litter Dan Wells’ exciting conclusion to his Partials Sequence, titled 'Ruins.' Following the events in ' Partials” and 'Fragments,' 'Ruins' picks up speed and hurtles the characters, now fragmented on two sides of the country, toward an unknown end - perhaps the end of the world. Can she? And, in the end, will it even matter?

But now she must decide if she has the will to escape and then to kill all those who stand in her way to try to ultimately save the human and Partial races. Up against mastermind scientists who have genetically engineered species-destroying viruses, Kira Walker has turned herself in for diabolical science experiments to save other humans. “RUINS, ' by Dan Wells, Balzer + Bray, $17.99, 464 pages (f) (ages 14 and up)

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