A review by emjay24
Isolation by Dan Wells

4.0

Isolation is a novella in the Partial series. It comes between books one and two, even though it’s labeled book .5 because the time frame in the book is before the series begins. We briefly met Heron, a Partial, in the first book, and this book is all about her, from her point of view. It switches from when she was born and being trained, to a mission near the end of the Isolation War. It also gives us some background on the Isolation War and creation of the Partials, something we didn’t have a lot of before, since Kira, the narrator of the first book, was only a baby or not even born during a lot of this time. This book takes only an hour or two to read, but is very fleshed out. Heron is probably a sociopath, since she was created with no conscience, but I like her a lot, and can’t wait to see her featured in the next Partials books.