Blog Tour- RUINS Timeline Scavenger Hunt by Dan Wells and a Giveaway!!

I am so excited to take part in the RUINS Timeline Scavenger Hunt Blog Tour! I loved this series and when I asked Dan if he'd like us to host it through Rockstar Book Tours he said yes! I was stoked and knew that I wanted to do something different and interesting for this one. So we came up with the idea of doing a timeline of all the events that came before the Partials wars. So everything you could possibly want to know that happened before the first book in the series! Check out my portion below and find the word bolded and highlighted in PURPLE for extra entries in the giveaway and make sure to check all of the tour stops for their portions of the timeline and their secret words!
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RUINS

Author: Dan Wells

Release Date: March 11, 2014

Pages: 464

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Goodreads/Amazon/Barnes & Noble

Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final installment in the Partials Sequence, a series that combines the thrilling action of The Hunger Games with the provocative themes of Blade Runner and The Stand.

There is no avoiding it—the war to decide the fate of both humans and Partials is at hand. Both sides hold in their possession a weapon that could destroy the other, and Kira Walker has precious little time to prevent that from happening. She has one chance to save both species and the world with them, but it will only come at great personal cost.

For information on the other books in the series check out Dan's website!

Ooh and check out the trailer!




Now on to the post!

2043: Weather patterns around the world grow increasingly uniform—the lows get higher, the highs get lower, and so on. While this is initially blamed on regular climate change, some scientists suspect that the changes may be caused by the bio-weapons left over from the 2037 war.

2044: ParaGen releases the Watchdog, a semi-sentient animal designed to accompany soldiers into battle, similar in concept to a K9 police unit. Engineered to be perfectly loyal and fiercely obedient, Watchdogs become very popular among soldiers in the field, and prove especially valuable in urban combat.

2045: The North American nations remain stable, but as the Isolation War comes closer and closer to an actual shooting war, analysts worry that the need for troops and the corresponding reduction of their work force will cripple the economy. Encouraged by the success of the Watchdog, ParaGen visits the US leadership and proposes a bold new plan: artificial life that doesn't just support the soldiers, but replaces them altogether. With a budget designed to pay for fighter jets (20 million dollars each), but with virtually none of the resources required to actually build new combat vehicles, the government agrees to fund a limited test.

2048: World weather patterns continue to erode. Winters are rarely even cold anymore, and this year marks the last time it will ever snow south of the 55th parallel.

About Dan:

Dan Wells writes in a variety of genres, from dark humor to science fiction to supernatural thriller. Born in Utah, he spent his early years reading and writing. He is the author of thePartials series and the John Cleaver series. He has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Campbell Award, and has won two Parsec Awards for his podcast Writing Excuses.

Website/Blog/Twitter/Facebook/Goodreads/The Partials Facebook Page

Giveaway Details:

Two trilogy sets, signed by Dan US Only

Two Partials T-shirts, one ParaGen and one Plague Baby. We can find out what size the winners are and send them something that fits. International.

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Tour Schedule

Week One:

3/3/2014- Magical Urban Fantasy Reads

3/4/2014- Fiktshun         

3/5/2014- Step Into Fiction         

3/6/2014- Two Chicks on Books

3/7/2014- Fantasy Book Addict 

Week Two:

3/10/2014- Parajunkee 

3/11/2014- Tales of a Ravenous Reader

3/12/2014- Mundie Moms          

3/13/2014- Supernatural Snark 

3/14/2014- All Things Urban Fantasy

Dying to Read (40)- RUINS by Dan Wells

Hey y’all thanks for stopping by to see my Dying to Read post and of course as always I have to give credit to the lovely Jill over at Breaking the Spine for the Waiting on Wednesday Meme!

This week the book I’m dying to read is RUINS by Dan Wells!!!!! He about killed me with book 2 FRAGMENTS and wouldn’t give me any hints about book 3! So yep I’m dying to get my hands on this one!!!!

Ruins

Dan Wells

Release Date: March 11, 2014

Paperback: 352 pages

Publisher: Balzer + Bray (Harper)

ISBN: 978-0062071101

Goodreads

Amazon/Barnes & Noble /The Book Depository

Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final installment of the blockbuster Partials Sequence.

Our time is almost up.

As the clock ticks closer and closer to the final Partial expiration date, humans and Partials stand on the brink of war. Caught in the middle, thousands of miles apart, are Samm and Kira: Samm, who is trapped on the far side of the continent beyond the vast toxic wasteland of the American Midwest; and Kira, now in the hands of Dr. Morgan, who is hell-bent on saving what's left of the Partials, even if she has to destroy Kira to do it.

The only hope lies in the hands of the scattered people of both races who seek a way to prevent the rapidly escalating conflict. But in their midst appears a mysterious figure, neither human nor Partial, with solemn warnings of the new apocalypse-one that none of them may be able to avert.

The last book in the Partials Sequence is a thrill ride of epic proportions, as the last remnants of life on our planet fight to determine its final fate.

So what do you think? Will you be adding this to your pile? What are you dying to read this week?

Jaime's Review of Partials by Dan Wells

From Goodreads.
The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Our time is running out.
Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what's left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she's not content to stand by and watch. But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them--connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there.
Dan Wells, acclaimed author of "I Am Not a Serial Killer," takes readers on a pulse pounding journey into a world where the very concept of what it means to be human is in question--one where our humanity is both our greatest liability and our only hope for survival.

Jaime’s review….

I really liked this book! I’m not going to say loved as there were a few things that I didn’t like but, I was able to overlook them for the most part. I guess I’ll start out with what I didn’t enjoy first. The length of the book; this book took longer than most to get through and I feel it could have been shorter I hope the rest of the books in the series are because I do plan to read them. I found myself asking “when is this going to end” a few times. The second thing I didn’t enjoy; I felt no emotional connection to any of the characters in the story my heart didn’t race during the action sequences and I didn’t get upset when something bad happened. I also usually have a crush on one of the male characters in a book but I didn’t find myself drawn to any of them. So no swooning over a boy in this one for me guys.

Now on to what I did like. The story itself was awesome and beautifully written!  I really liked the idea and the way Dan Wells envisioned the world and how they came to be after the wars. Kira is a pretty badass heroine and her circle of friends were also pretty awesome! I also really liked the description of the places in the story I could easily visualize them. I really want to learn more about the partials themselves and I hope book 2 is more about them and the mysterious Para-Gen. Oh and the cover was gorgeous! Like I said I definitely will be reading book 2 and I am looking forward to it!

Add Partials to your Goodreads shelves.

Partials comes out February 28^th so make sure to pre-order your copy!

Thanks to Harper Teen and Netgalley for the review copy!