The Ones We’re Meant to Find Review

Hi friends! Welcome to my The Ones We’re Meant to Find Review! I’m super excited for this one because TOWMTF has shot to the top of my “favourite books” list. This book is amazing and I’m going to be screaming about it for a while. Let’s jump in!

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Title: The Ones We’re Meant to Find

Author: Joan He

Rating: 5 Stars

CAWPILE: 9.4/10

Genre: Sci-Fi, Dystopian, YA

Content Warnings: Death (of a parent – off page), gore (some), large scale natural disasters and mass casualties, suicide, terminal illness, violence, vomiting.

Format: eARC

Publisher: Roaring Brook

Date Published: May 4th 2021

Goodreads Description: Cee has been trapped on an abandoned island for three years without any recollection of how she arrived, or memories from her life prior. All she knows is that somewhere out there, beyond the horizon, she has a sister named Kay. Determined to find her, Cee devotes her days to building a boat from junk parts scavenged inland, doing everything in her power to survive until the day she gets off the island and reunites with her sister.

In a world apart, 16-year-old STEM prodigy Kasey Mizuhara is also living a life of isolation. The eco-city she calls home is one of eight levitating around the world, built for people who protected the planet―and now need protecting from it. With natural disasters on the rise due to climate change, eco-cities provide clean air, water, and shelter. Their residents, in exchange, must spend at least a third of their time in stasis pods, conducting business virtually whenever possible to reduce their environmental footprint. While Kasey, an introvert and loner, doesn’t mind the lifestyle, her sister Celia hated it. Popular and lovable, Celia much preferred the outside world. But no one could have predicted that Celia would take a boat out to sea, never to return.

Now it’s been three months since Celia’s disappearance, and Kasey has given up hope. Logic says that her sister must be dead. But as the public decries her stance, she starts to second guess herself and decides to retrace Celia’s last steps. Where they’ll lead her, she does not know. Her sister was full of secrets. But Kasey has a secret of her own.

I received a review copy from Netgalley and the author. All opinions are my own.

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The Ones We’re Meant to Find Review

Characters – 9/10

I’m going to try to not sound like a blubbering fool, but OMG this book was beautiful. I related so hard to Kasey. I loved her character and her relationships with the people around her. Reading from her POV was a joy and she was just so easy to like. I need more STEM women in sci-fi and YA, please. Her relationship with Act was one of my favourite relationships. I need a follow-up that explores their relationship after the end of this book. Peak friends(lovers?)-to-enemies energy.

Cee gave me so many emotions. I loved her so much and she was just such a likable character. I will admit I didn’t quite buy her relationship with Hero, but it wasn’t bad. And I love that the main relationship in this book is the one between Cee and Kasey. I need more YA stories centered around siblings, thanks.

Atmosphere – 10/10

The worldbuilding was STELLAR. The design of the eco-cities just blew me away and I enjoyed the eco-disaster background. I loved the realistic problems the world faces and the class system is such a human thing to do.

The island and the mysteries surrounding the island had me hooked. It played such an important part in the story and He just used the surroundings and the world so well.

Writing – 9/10

The writing was superb. Joan He is a genius and I cannot even begin to grasp her brilliance. I could not stop reading. The start of the book is a little confusing, but as you go on the pieces fall into place and your mind is just blown.

Plot – 9/10

This was a pretty fast-paced book, but I felt like the big reveal could have been done a little later. This is also a standalone, but I wish we could have gotten more. The story is so good and I really need more of Kasey and Act. This is by far one of my favorite sci-fi books I have read to date.

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Intrigue – 10/10

He is most definitely a genius writer. The way the conflicts in this story play out and intertwine was amazing. I don’t have the vocabulary to even describe it properly. The conflicts between Act and Kasey, Hero and Cee, Cee and Kasey, and even Celia and Kasey were just so WELL DONE. I was hanging on every word.

Logic – 9/10

The way this book is structured just blew my mind. We get both a first-person and a third-person POV, but you’re never confused about what is happening. The change happens so naturally and it reads so naturally. Both Cee and Kasey’s POVs have different tones and different voices. Their chapters are structured in a way that the future mirrors the events in the past. It is BRILLIANT.

Enjoyment – 10/10

Read this book. Even if you don’t like sci-fi. You will like it after this. There are so many layers to this book I cannot even begin to unpack them all. I will be rereading this for sure.

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