I find that while straight off apocalyptic fiction doesn't interest me as much nowadays as it did when I was once captivated by John Wyndham’s Day of the Triffids (since after all there are only so many things you can do with humans fighting for food and shelter or being munched by the zombie hoard), I find this sort of post apocalypse dystopian setting much more interesting, seeing the world a few years after the disaster, what efforts have been made with respect to recovery or not, what new societies and customs arise and what sort of people inhabit it. A society of the last 20,000 people in America (or possibly the world), survivors of a war with genetically created soldiers living together on Long Island where all women were required by law to be pregnant, but where all babies die a few minutes after birth due to the Rm virus. Not only because I had enjoyed the only other book I'd read by Dan Wells, the wonderfully silly gothic farce Night of Blacker Darkness, but also because the world and setting of Partials intrigued me as a very unique take on apocalyptic dystopia. It soon becomes clear that, in this game, winning might be the only way to get out alive.A friend of mine recently lent me Partials by Dan Wells, and it was a book I was rather eager to try. But Forward Motion turns out to be more than it seems-rife with corruption, infighting, and danger-and Marisa runs headlong into Alain Bensoussan, a beautiful, dangerous underground freedom fighter who reveals to her the darker side of the forces behind the tournament. For Marisa, this could mean anything-a chance to finally go pro and to help her family, stuck in an LA neighborhood on the wrong side of the growing divide between the rich and the poor. Marisa Carneseca is on the hunt for a mysterious hacker named Grendel when she receives word that her amateur Overworld team has been invited to Forward Motion, one of the most exclusive tournaments of the year. If you have a connection to the internet and four friends you trust with your life, anything is possible. It means fame and fortune, or maybe it's a ticket out of obscurity or poverty. It's more than just the world's most popular e-sport-for thousands of VR teams around the globe, Overworld is life.
From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the second book in a dark, pulse-pounding sci-fi-noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles.
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