Partials is a dystopian YA series that *doesn't* suck

[@ZooTycoonPunk]

Evil James Tullos be like: This is the conclusion song! It's very good but it's too long. But still, very neat to have a dystopian YA book that isn't just a clone.

[@riley8385]

I haven't watch the video yet, but I've read this series and I disagree with it not sucking. It has a great start and an interesting setting and then it goes really bad in the second book.

[@marocat4749]

Haha lets wait evil james do this.

[@eldrago19]

I haven't read either but my brother has read Maze Runner and we have watched most of the movies together and this definitely sounds a lot like Maze Runner.

[@amberruby4896]

Do you still play zoo tycoon?

[@ZooTycoonPunk]

@@amberruby4896 Yeah, I even make videos about Zoo Tycoon.

[@abcdef27669]

Those anti-confederate t-shirts are really cool!

[@urhsusnikvrecic1478]

The one being discussed is straight 🔥

[@RonaldoLuizPedroso]

Check mate Liconites!

[@hopekeeley2122]

Love how he gives books a fair shake. So many reviewers look at ya aimed at girls and immediately trash them, but he actually has reasons that their bad, and when a good one comes around he’ll say it. Ya dystopia isn’t exactly my brand either, but as I’ve grown I’ve learned that I can’t judge a book by its cover

[@tangrowthhat6153]

So if I don't know where to go in an apocalypse, I guess I'll head to Denver.

[@jayjade6003]

The more that I think about things, alot or "Hunger Games clones" follow Divergent more than Hunger Games. Some of the tropes started by Hunger Games actually did have substance whereas Divergent did not and alot of YA dystopian books follow that

[@hopekeeley2122]

From what I remembered, the hunger games were actually pretty nuanced. Wish more clones were more actually like the hunger games

[@hopekeeley2122]

@@hihihihihihihihihihihey yeah I had a hard time watching the movies.

[@marl3ymarl3y86]

Anti-sjw James is from the dark timeline

[@JamesTullos]

Or just 6 years ago in this timeline. Either way.

[@marl3ymarl3y86]

@@JamesTullos the alternate history book no one wants to read

[@nobody4248]

@@JamesTullos but he still wears the "John Brown did nothing wrong" t-shirt. lol

[@mek101whatif7]

@@JamesTullos Welcome to the club

[@jonathanbosak8581]

@@JamesTullos the vigin 6 years ago James Tullos vs the Chad presente day James Tullos

[@johannageisel5390]

10:18 "Not a badass but at the same time she is" ... I would call that "a capable Anybody".

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

Didn't expect to see anyone talk about this book. It used to be my favourite book back when I was still in the target audience for YA fiction.

[@Alex-fh4my]

Same here, was pretty sad noone knew about it back then either but seeing it come up on the channel is awesome

[@heathdionne7717]

I like how the time travel is very clearly actually an alternative universe

[@JcBravo8]

“She’s not white, she’s Indian.” …. I mean, I’m pretty sure there are white girls from Indiana, future James.

[@andrewdiaz3529]

Damn, Sherman Shirts really are... really are... ...fire...

[@ps1hagridoufofcharacter]

i like listening to you talk for 30 minutes cuz youre an absolute nerd and i enjoy the vibe

[@gasmonkey1000]

*Sees title* Oh dear Lord. Either it's a miracle or James has been abducted and replaced by a doppelganger

[@esobelisk3110]

Idk if it was done like this in the book, but the thing about partials using pheromones to communicate emotions sounds like it could be an interesting parallel to neurodivergent people, like with the whole thing about other people thinking they’re robotic and emotionless, when really they just communicate emotions differently.

[@Lan..]

The whole pheromone bit you talked about at 13:04 reminded me a lot of the elcor from mass effect, so that aspect of the partials seems pretty cool

[@Avarn388]

That introduction was golden. I look forward to checking out this video. Keep up the good work. :)

[@3choblast3r4]

If they bioengineered humanoid slaves, why would they give them the capability to out think regular humans. But more importantly, why does this girl need a "partial" ... didn't they create them in the first place? You'd think they would have a bunch captive or their entire DNA mapped out and stuff.

[@albertkonikowski1930]

But the Partials were probably created by the government which wouldn't want ordinanry people to know how to create them. Besides that the Partials were used as soldiers and that job needs intelligent people.

[@turtle4926]

Because they were made for war. They had to outsmart human enemies. And no, they don't have a bunch captive because the surviving humans aren't the world's strongest and brightest. They're just trying their best because they're the only ones left. There weren't any geniuses in the story. Just people trying to escape extinction. In the beginning of the trilogy, they knew they wouldn't stand a chance against even a small group of partials. Capturing one only became an option when every other logical direction lead to a dead end. Also, they barely had the technology for complex medical/scientific procedures. They used the few solar panels they had to power their hospital (mostly the maternity section) and the rest of the community survived on candles for their homes and hand cranks for their handheld radios. If the remaining humans didn't have gene mods installed pre-apocalypse to protect them from the diseases we have today, I'm pretty sure everyone would've just died from those years before the story started. I agree that the books weren't groundbreaking or mindblowing and the ending was a little disappointing. But I think it's worth the read. I'm not forcing you or anything hahaha. I just felt like defending this book a little (not that you were attacking them) because I did enjoy reading it for the reasons James has already enumerated 😅

[@LittleSillyGoose613]

I really liked Dan Wells's John Cleaver series. When I found out this series was essentially jumping on the YA dystopia train, I ignored it. But I might read it now.

[@SaphoSheep]

Loving the John Brown shirt! Join your local JBGC, kids!

[@Nell_Tanya]

We have to call the main cast of James Tullos Productions and mourn the death of a persona.

[@arc.gouda08]

Gonna give this a read, been looking for something to read lol.

[@stillnousername9796]

I liked the part in the video where James defeated TULLOS (Archer)

[@Liggliluff]

Is it just me, or is it a YA trope with having a female lead in a black tanktop? Maybe that's not a trope and I'm cherry picking.

[@philippstetter5611]

Well i didnt expect this video to begin with James killing his time traveling self

[@sandraneaton99]

I'm literally only 30 seconds in, I just had to drop in to say those tee shirts are gold.

[@jayjade6003]

Have you read the Kyoshi Novels?? If you have, please make a video about it!!!

[@rodrigo3732]

Oh yeah,it,s been a while since i watched a youtuber talking to himself in his room

[@girl4eversweet]

I got this book after watching the minor spoiler review, out of curiosity, and let me tell you, I'm surprised this book wasn't popular when I was its target audience. It's quite a but better than most of them, especially in terms of worldbuilding (something I admittedly didn't care about then, but do now).

[@__-jt4tv]

If memory serves, isn't it Ants that release death pheremones IRL? I know that Crows do their whole "Funeral Service" routine as a "We found a dead crow, stay away" trick..

[@1RoundInTheChamber]

I don't even care about the books, I need me them shirts.

[@gandalf6751]

Dude, I just got my elastics off, I feel for ya…

[@nyx2875]

Still wishing for the day James covers Worm

[@secondengineer9814]

1:40 James clocked Future James so hard that PAST James needed jaw surgery :p

[@BlueBeetle1939]

Love the shirts that's my heritage right there

[@koalasandwich567]

Bro I love the t-shirts.

[@jayjade6003]

That Zuko picture tho...AVATAR!!!!

[@CrisjoseCruz]

Would love a a full battlefield earth type video fully breaking the series down

[@Cloudsurfer69]

ayy, i love your voice + always watch till the end :D

[@caligulacorday]

24:37 i think you'll find it's pronounced "sarah z"

[@prathikbhawankar9708]

I think Partials is one of the only dystopian series I have enjoyed from start to finish. It has its fair share of flaws but its easily a 7.5-8/10 series. Dan Wells writes good stuff Edit: I too think the ending was rushed. The series peaked in book 2.

[@AllisonMiller30]

James they know you’re from Colorado and they know you don’t like this particular type of genre so they’re doing it to troll you.

[@Znyggisen]

23:40 It is touched on in c.35 of Ruins "Even with his gene mods he was still human, and it must have been his breath that set the reaction in motion. I thought it would stop expiration, but I didn't realize it would restart the normal aging process as well." (the cured partials appear 30 yrs old).

[@marianamauricio]

this was a great review!! seems like an interesting series

[@kiracarver988]

But, to comment on the overall video, I appreciate your thoughts. I appreciate that there aren't a thousand cuts or ridiculous editing. And you just have a really nice way of speaking.

[@Ikcatcher]

Not sure if you take suggestions but I would appreciate if you could take a look at the TimeRiders book series. It’s a YA time travel book series that kinda falls off as the series went on

[@ecox255225]

The shirts are amazing.

[@wulfske]

those shirts go unbelievably hard

[@pepperjacket]

i wasnt this early to my own birth

[@Megafreakx3]

Uglies and Scythe are (at least to me) some top tier YA dystopian

[@mynamejeff3545]

I read Uglies on Wattpad several years ago, I think it might've been the first draft or a completely slimmed down version, because I found it lacking in most aspects. The worldbuilding was interesting but it was too short, the romance was trite and there were some really weird metaphors in there. The author claimed the book was getting published, but I hope a different version than the one available on wattpad was published.

[@Megafreakx3]

@@mynamejeff3545 Ummm the book came out in 2005 while Wattpad wasn't around until a year later. (and even than I don't think Scott Westerfeld has an account on there). Personally pre-Hunger games, it was a solid book series. At least it had more world-building than most Hunger games clones.

[@SemekiIzuio]

I remember the uglies! We would call it the ooglies lol between my friends

[@thevoidborn7524]

The human gov’t of long island is already a bad mess lol I grew up there and boy oh boy do I despise it with every fiber of my being. Just everything about it sucks really, the gov’t is actually the least complained about thing, I’d rather die than move back there and my gf and all my friends who also grew up there would do the same I audibly groaned when you said they live there lol

[@99jean88]

Sherman is my favorite character as well.

[@littleeusbee]

Those are some killer tees

[@srpdara]

HAHAH THE SKIT IS 🔥🔥

[@JamesTullos]

Not as fire as Atlanta was in September of 1864.

[@JustFlemishMe]

@@JamesTullos Was a bit torn. It's a good joke, hence why I gave it a like. However, it's still sad an entire town where one assumes normal people lived burns. We all hate the Nazis, but bombed out German cities are still sad. Sorry, I need my sidenotes.

[@billyalarie929]

@@JustFlemishMe of course bombed out cities are still sad. But not bc n@z!s we’re killed. Let’s just get that straight right out of the gate.

[@mynamejeff3545]

@@JustFlemishMe May I introduce you to the concept "war". Or just the fact that cities used to burn down a suprising lot during that time. New Orleans literally kept burning down over and over again until they rebuilt the entire city in stone, and even then fires were common: it just consumed blocks instead of the entire city.

[@JustFlemishMe]

@@billyalarie929 Yeah, I too find it hard to sympathize with the people who started the whole mess because they just wanted more and more. Those who slaughter the innocent need to be removed, no shame in that.

[@oliviacarolinanogueira7769]

very rarely immunity to diseases is passed to children, breast milk has some antibodies but only those that are always in the body, not specific ones

[@antonijasrsen6231]

Those t shirts are very cool

[@lillydittman6295]

I love Dan wells but I've never read this book of his, and now maybe I will

[@griffinhunter3206]

this is the introduction song its not very good but its not too long

[@anthonymarantino8762]

Shirt link?

[@yuvalgabay1023]

"The world ends ..me: time to go to Denver

[@crazywhofan6676]

I need that Sherman shirt.

[@alien7804]

i love your tattoos james

[@vaughnh.150]

It is only in this video that I realised how long James's hair is

[@Saltici.Saturnii]

Is winter coming?

[@treekangaroo.7691]

you have high quality shirts

[@mynamejeff3545]

Nice shirts bro

[@emilyrln]

Partials book 4: *Forever 20*

[@elnatanchon6219]

Who knew that future Jsmes would become super right-wing

[@JustinSh.]

Could as well be an absolute Communist...

[@notbaldfrost]

my favorite alt-right leftist book reviewer

[@kurov531]

BASED t-shirts bruv

[@SemekiIzuio]

If you are still seeing comments, please review Strange Angels by lili crow! It was my favorite book before it took a dive. Would like a 2nd opinion

[@nyxine7516]

Hope you don't get demonetised.

[@danger2236]

as you were explaining the book, I was getting the feeling like I've read something like this before, then I saw the cover, and now I know I have. I did not like this book, not in a bad way, just the prose was really boring and almost couldn't get to the point for me. It was just not made for me, and i know I say that having barely read 100 pages, but it's just not for me. At least this review was good

[@kiracarver988]

20:52 I'm confused about where these "five dollar words" are coming in. I don't think the language is too over the top at all. In fact I think it's too prosaic. "It doesn't have to be this way!" God if I had a dollar for every time that phrase popped up in books. It feels verbose because it's repetitive more than flowery. A lot of words being used to say very little. Edit: I guess to be more clear, I don't consider words like "existence" or "desperate" to be super fancy, and they were the most complex words I heard in the excerpt.

[@TuflaM]

yoo you got a machete!! Good for u!!!

[@ackermanlol]

Impossible.

[@gogomonow]

I like your shirt.

[@timfrank7461]

I'm begging you please do city one that book was so bad

[@spenc4808]

impossible

[@ablackkira]

Nice shirt

[@RawbeardX]

I feel like the author has a shedding fetish...

[@nowhereman6019]

Utterly based shirts you got there.

[@alananimus9145]

Michael Criton novels are bad. His dinosaurs don't have feathers.