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Horn Book
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Humans engineered Partials for defense, but these creatures turned against their creators, setting off a virus that killed most of the world's population. Eleven years later, sixteen year-old Kira, a nurse-medic in training, and her friends capture a Partial, which Kira wants to study for a cure. Wells presents a frighteningly familiar world and realistic characters but saps the tension with lengthy scientific passages. (c) Copyright 2012. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.