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Perfect for fans of Marie Lu and E. Lockhart, The Ones We're Meant to Find is a twisty YA sci-fi that follows the story of two sisters, separated by an ocean, desperately trying to find each other in a climate-ravaged future.
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, and it's up to Cee to cross the ocean and find her.
In a world apart, 16-year-old STEM prodigy Kasey Mizuhara lives in an eco-city 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 nevertheless, she 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.
- Reading age12 - 17 years
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level10 - 12
- PublisherRoaring Brook Press
- Publication dateMay 4, 2021
- ISBN-13978-1250258564
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"I fell in love with this haunting, futuristic world and the sisters searching for each other in it. Joan He's words will stay with you long after the final page." - Marie Lu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Skyhunter
‘In a climate-ravaged future, the love between two sisters is the only hope for humanity's future. This is sci-fi at its best: floating cities, kindness and desert islands!’ Lauren James, author of The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker
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- ASIN : B08BKL8BBG
- Publisher : Roaring Brook Press (May 4, 2021)
- Publication date : May 4, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 3324 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 379 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #612,788 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Joan He was born and raised in Philadelphia but still will, on occasion, lose her way. At a young age, she received classical instruction in oil painting before discovering that storytelling was her favorite form of expression. She studied Psychology and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Pennsylvania and currently writes from a desk overlooking the Delaware River. She is the author of the critically acclaimed YA fantasy Descendant of the Crane, as well as the scifi The Ones We're Meant to Find.
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This is the first sci-fi book I read in a while—and I must admit that I was drawn in almost solely by the book’s cover: the soft sunrise, seafoam, and waves, soothing like the quiet solitude that begins the book. I am predisposed to classic and literary fiction, and I was most gripped by the intricacies of Kasey’s character in her third-person chapters and the way that the narrative unfolds, little piece of the puzzle by piece, gaps filling in as you read and connect two stories that happen at entirely different times and places. That the characters could spiral in and out of control created for me a profound humanity in this novel, which is so open about the raw nature of self-preservation and hope (“What if human nature is the last disease we have yet to eradicate?”). The twists and ambiguous ending leave a hole that I think could only be filled with the reader’s answer to the choice between love and logic, in a world where both are fighting to coexist.
I rate Joan He’s book 5 stars for reminding us to breathe, love the sea, and search unapologetically for the people and places we’re meant to find.
I wish there had been more emphasis placed on the world building. It was sometimes hard to follow just what the world around Kasey looked like. Celia was easy: her world was a house on an abandoned island, something I’m familiar with. Kasey’s world was entirely too foreign and futuristic for me to easily imagine. I found myself confused as to whether or not she was in holo or in real life, events passing in a flash since Kasey was too focused on finding Celia, anyway. It hardly seemed to matter whether it was happening in “real” life or not. I liked the way Kasey could adjust her mood with her implant, and how the implant could sense a decline in mood and suggest treatment. Well, I thought it was interesting this was possible. It adjusted Kasey’s mood so that she seemed very unfeeling and it was difficult to connect with her as a character.
The relationship between Kasey and Actinium is also hard to pin down. Kasey is searching for her sister and comes across Actinium, who seems to know something of her disappearance. Act is in it for his own purposes and learns about Celia alongside Kasey. They don’t spend much time together on page but know each other more intimately later, with the quick passage of time forging relationships we only get to see the result of. It made it difficult to really resonate with the characters, when they develop offscreen.
I enjoyed the mystery bits, learning what actually happened to Celia, as well as the deepening understanding between the two sisters as Kasey traced her sister’s thoughts and actions through time. Their relationship was the primary story, everything else secondary, and the story telling suffered a bit because of it. There were several other mysteries, like what crime did Kasey commit? Why does Actinium have a hacked identifier? What was going to happen to the eco-cities and the people on the ground?
I enjoyed the writing style, particularly the bits told from Celia’s point of view. The cover is also very beautiful. I was happy to receive a copy of this book! It was an anticipated read and while it disappointed in some ways, I think it came out well in the end, even though I didn’t particularly like the ending. The twist is pretty satisfying. I like having an explanation for the many questions that bogged down my reading experience from the middle through to the twist. I definitely wanted more closure than I got.
This is primarily a book about sisters, Celia and Kasey. Cee has been stuck on an abandoned island with only an outdated robot for company. She's lost most of her memory but knows that she has a sister out in the world and is trying her best to get back to her. Kasey back home in eco-city, a floating metropolis designed to protect people from the decaying planet, has no idea what happened to her sister after a camera records her taking a boat out to sea more than three months prior. Kasey rules her life by logic and science and logic says that Celia should have died of dehydration or drowning after being missing for so long but she can't stop the hope that Celia will be found. Celia is the only one who could break through Kasey's stoicism. I loved the sisters so much, their relationship and characterization was so much more complex than the initial assumption of social butterfly and stoic loner.
Someone else said this book reminded them of a Studio Ghibli film and I could not agree more. A lot of Ghibli films focus on themes of environmentalism. In The Ones We're Meant to Find humanity has destroyed the planet, mega quakes are common occurrences, the water has become incredibly polluted, even the air is filled with toxic gas. The lucky few managed to make it to an eco-city, floating above most of the horrors that now plague the Earth. Space is tight in the eco-cities and there's simply not enough room for everyone on Earth, the governing bodies of the eco-cities have become desperate for ideas on how to save humanity. I was fascinated by all the examples of how what's currently being done to the planet can turn into these mega-disasters if nothing is done to course correct. Ghibli films also have beautiful quiet moments that let the larger story breathe. I found those same moments in this book, more so in the beginning before the twists get really crazy and start propelling the story but they were still there in a couple of scenes toward the end. This was a truly beautiful book.
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Although this is classed as sci-fi the story isn’t heavily sci-fi and is rather a story within a sci-if/dystopian setting. The story does include tech which is similar to that of TV shows Black Mirror and Brave New World. So definitely don’t let it this being within the sci-fi category put you of if it’s not your usual genre!
This book was just so beautifully written and gives off this amazing soft image when imagining the world. The story twists and turns were completely unexpected and left me wanting more.