This feels like the right book for me, but I read it at the wrong time.
The Ones We're Meant to Find is a beautiful and unique novel that illustrates tThis feels like the right book for me, but I read it at the wrong time.
The Ones We're Meant to Find is a beautiful and unique novel that illustrates the love between sisters in this apocalyptic future. A future where your carbon footprint defines your rank—which equates to your privileges in this dystopian world.
Joan He gave so much to her readers with its world-building and plot. She wrote a creative and interesting take on the future and perfectly envisioned a world where humans suffered the consequences of their own selfishness and ignorance of the environment.
As much as I wanted to enjoy this book, the first half of the book was excruciatingly slow, I nearly DNF-ed it. This is the kind of book that requires your 100% undivided attention or else you wouldn't fully understand the plot. And since this is a sci-fi book, this book (or mostly Kasey's POV) was filled with scientific jargons that were hard for me to digest. I read this book when I wasn't fully invested in it so I might've missed out on some important points because I skimmed through mostly those scientific explanations.
The plot's timeline was also a bit of a mess. I only fully understood everything after reading Joan He's version of the timeline on her Twitter account. Which I believe shouldn't have been given to me on the sides but should've been well elaborated and incorporated in the book instead.
The Ones We're Meant to Find is not a bad book though. The pacing on the first half might've been slow, but the second half made up for it. Hence, the 3 stars. Plus, I love Joan He's writing, the world-building, the plot twists, and the book cover. It's just a book that requires too much effort to read. ...more
I read this book because Dark Matter introduced me to this entire multiverse plot and it was too outstanding that I knew I had to read more book(3.5)
I read this book because Dark Matter introduced me to this entire multiverse plot and it was too outstanding that I knew I had to read more books regarding the multiverse.
This book wasn't exactly what I had in mind but the story wasn't that bad. The plot was actually interesting and unique for a YA book! I think this whole idea of (view spoiler)[Marguirette jumping into the alternate universe and falling in love with that universe's version of Paul was kinda interesting. (hide spoiler)] However, aside from that, the romance and the love triangle in this story were your usual YA trope. And one thing that actually disappointed me was this entire idea of using the Firebird to leap into the different universe was written so plainly. It wasn't very detailed as if the author wasn't sure herself how this entire thing works. Sure she wrote some details about it, but it was like trying to patch up the different pages of a book not knowing whether you have all the pages. The entire concept was missing a puzzle piece or two and the gap was pretty evident. Maybe because the Dark Matter's whole concept of this multiverse was executed perfectly that this book came as a disappointment for me (I know I shouldn't compare, but, sorry, can't help it).
But I think if you just want to read a book that doesn't use much scientific jargons and still want to explore the multiverse, then I guess this book is for you!...more
EDIT: I just finished watching the movie Passenger (starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt) and I can't help but compare the similarities between EDIT: I just finished watching the movie Passenger (starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt) and I can't help but compare the similarities between the two. The storyline is somewhat similar with all these travelling to another planet, having hibernation pods, being alone in space etc. If you love this book you should watch the movie!!! Or vice versa.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3.5 stars
Okay. This book has ONE HELLUVA PLOT TWIST. It wasn't even my intention to finish this book so soon...but holy crap, those last 100 pages of the book got me so hooked up, I knew I had to finish it ASAP!
This book has one of the most interesting storylines ever. I mean, a girl born in space who's commandeering an entire spaceship and is in charge of starting a new life on Earth II? That's basically everyone's dream (okay, maybe not everyone, but still)! And she's probably the only human alive who hasn't been on Earth!!!
However, aside from page 200 onwards, there wasn't really much going on. And it wasn't actually that bad considering that Romy's experiences alone in space was interesting enough for me. The whole idea of being alone out there in space, at 16, is so bizarre and out of this world (no pun intended). I think this book is good in such ways that it's thought-provoking. However, character-wise, there wasn't really much developments in my opinion. And Romy seems so millennial-ish? Like a normal teenager. Which is a bit odd to me considering that her only real human interaction is with her parents. IN SPACE. I mean I know Molly has been sending her updates from Earth, but I feel like she's too normal. And don't even get me started with J. J's personality totally caught me off-guard. That ending? (view spoiler)[I think I've been reading too many books where the main guy is so dream-like and perfect that when I read that J is short and over thirty, I can't imagine him being gorgeous as what Romy has described. Like, I just can't. (hide spoiler)]
But overall, I think this book was totally enjoyable and interesting!...more
The dedication page for this book shouldn't be "For anyone who has wondered what their life might look like at the end of the road not taken." It shouThe dedication page for this book shouldn't be "For anyone who has wondered what their life might look like at the end of the road not taken." It should be "For anyone who is prepared to get their brains fucked up."
Because this entire book is a series of mind-fucking events! It will make you question your very own existence. Make you lose your shit and experience a whirlwind of emotions. If I get a dollar for all the times Blake Crouch fucked with my brain, I'd probably be rich enough to build a time machine so I could go back in time when I hadn't picked this book up in the library. Because damn, I'm scarred for life. It's like being reborn into a new world and wondering if the past 21 years of living in this world were a mere dream. I mean, I'M HAVING AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS RIGHT NOW! The aftermath of reading this book is equivalent to being suck into a vacuum. NOTHINGNESS. I'm here physically, but my mind is floating around on the milky way, waiting for my other self from the multiverse to get back the life that was taken away from me by this new knowledge I've acquired.
To anyone who's into sci-fi or just wants to get mindblown, I'm begging you with all what's left of my sanity to read this book!!!...more
There’s always gonna be that pang in your chest whenever you end a series this good! But I didn’t expect this one to come with hundreds of bullets strThere’s always gonna be that pang in your chest whenever you end a series this good! But I didn’t expect this one to come with hundreds of bullets straight through my heart.
I LOVE THIS BOOK SERIES. SO. FREAKING. MUCH.
First of all, the fact that this is an epistolary novel written by two authors is already amazing in itself. I couldn’t imagine all the time and effort Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman and their team spent in completing this masterpiece. What more to do it 3 times?
I love that this book is told creatively through a dossier of documents, emails, transcripts (shoutout to my fave Analyst ID 7213-0089-DN and -0094 whom I found out the identities later on), chats etc because it made the reading experience 10 times better. And you’d think that it’s probably going to be perplexing since following a plot through different formats and alternating POVs might create confusion, but it didn’t. I had so much fun reading each page and even turning my book upside down just to read the words completely.
And what’s this book without these amazing characters? Kady, Ezra, Hannah, Nik, Ella, Asha, and Rhys. I SO LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. They're lionhearted teenagers who fought a war with nothing but their wit, faith and great teamwork. Their silly banters and inside jokes were so precious I wish I could jot them on a piece of paper, put them inside a jar and read them whenever I feel down. Because I literally laughed out loud numerous times while reading this book especially because of Nik, our little parachute guy.
But if I were to choose one character whom I love the most, it's undeniably AIDAN. AIDAN is my absolute favourite and I didn’t know I had it in me to feel love and sympathy towards an Artificial Intelligence until I read this series. He made me cry real tears. TWICE. His character is so complex and I think his complexity made me love him dearly. I'm not gonna deny it, but I feel sad reading some reviews about people hating on AIDAN. I feel like they're missing out the point that he's an AI with no emotional feelings like a human being, so his decision will always be the most logical of all and hence, does not agree with a human's capability to feel conscience and remorse. Although near the end, you'd see him becoming more human-like which made me love him even more (view spoiler)[especially when he saved our little Hypatia and her parents :( You guys, I nearly cried again. Istg, AIDAN made me cry more than my uni life. (hide spoiler)]
Anyway, hands down to Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman for creating such fascinating characters and an out-of-this-world plot! This series totally set my standards up high for a sci-fi book and words aren't even enough to express how astounding this book is....more
♡ gillian⁷
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