Catch The Ones Were Meant To Find Prepared By Joan He File
and that's bookout in the world friends! thank you so, so much to everyone who took the time to read and review.
As always, an extra big thank you to everyone crossposting reviews on retail sites such as amazon and BampN.
It's a huge help to us authors lt
Like last time, I thought I'd round up some FAQs and drop some insight here!
sitelinkTHE OPEN ENDING
Ok, I know that isn't the answer you wanted.
In my very biased opinion, I'm for less is more, No second helpings of dessert, hides
sitelinkTHE TIMELINE spoilers
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sitelinkTHE INSPIRATION
and other thoughts!
sitelinkCEE amp KASEY AS CHARACTERS
On Kasey in particular, I wanted to note, as I did in the above tweet, that I wrote her from my own personal experience.
However you interpret her character is entirely up to you the book is yours now, not mine, But if you're wondering why certain labels do not appear on the page, this would be the reason.
In the writing of the book, I drew strictly from how I see myself, at this point in time.
Any lack of onpage rep stems from this conscientious choice,
And with that, I set this book loose! I hope it finds you lt
Content warnings:.
The list may not be exhaustive, and will be updated as necessary,
ARCSs exist, and the preorder campaign for the book is LIVE! For more details, images of the swag, and link to submit receipts, please sitelinkvisit my site.
Please note that the arc is not final, While the story doesn't differ, during edits some lines were changed to be more inclusive, This will all be reflected in the finished copy! Thank you for understanding lt
and the cover is live!!! meet the sisters, Cee and Kasey! Cee's in the back, Kasey's got the bangs.
Art credits and preorder info can be found in my sitelinkannouncement thread,
DOTC's cover opened so many doors that it was really important to me this delivered on the same level.
I've been biting my nails for a while now and I'm relieved to see the excitement for what we came up with.
It really captures the heart of the sisters' story so well, Thank you for celebrating the reveal with me, and stay tuned for more info in the coming days!
We have a release date! Mark your calendars for Mayth,.
Can't wait to share more details full summary, cover, etc, soon.
I'm beyond thrilled to say that I have more books coming your way! if you've read DESCENDANT OF THE CRANE and thought that was twisty, then you're not ready please.
stars
The Black Mirror reminiscent scifi of my dreams that somehow managed to break my heart into smithereens before I ever finished reading.
After awaking marooned on an abandoned island with nothing to retrace her steps but the memory of a sister awaiting her return, Cee will do anything to find her way home.
Three years later and the island has become her captor, luring her back no matter how many times she tries to escape its clutches.
Back home, Kasey mourns a sister lost forever to the sea while facing a tumultuous future in the ecocity, earths last sanctuary.
With its useful life almost spent, Kasey knows that using her gifts to ensure earths future means finding a difficult solution, one that the citizens just might not want to hear.
Right as Cee begins to turn desperate someone unlikely washes up on shore, Kasey begins to make her case, and two sisters set adrift must find their own destiny, whether that be together or apart.
The Ones Were Meant to Find is quite frankly one of the most painful books I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
Its a gutwrenching unpredictable novel that only someone as talented as Joan He could ever have written, Right from the start, this ensnared me in its grasp through its masterful worldbuilding and its vision of a future not so far off as one should like to think.
To say I devoured this book would be the understatement of the century when in reality I was possessed by some otherworldly being that had me completing this in well under two hours.
This is one of those books with a keen air of mystery present, which naturally led to me creating wild theories in my head as the book progressed.
I feel compelled to mention that I was way off the mark with my theories, to the point of embarrassment, but the whole journey was really just exquisite.
He has combined components of both thriller and science fiction within this novel, creating a story so ingenious and immersive it's impossible to put down.
Classifying this as a pageturner seems appropriate given that, but this is also a thoughtprovoking read that took me on an emotional journey I am not sure I will recover from any time soon.
Not only was this book exquisitely painful, it was also maddeningly frustrating at times, The very nature of a separation story such as this had me anxiously awaiting a reunion between both sisters, one that did not turn out at all how I was anticipating.
Up until the last third of the book, I was on the edge of my seat completely at the mercy of Joan and her obscure plans.
Well, this is certainly shaping up to be one of my favorite books of the year, maybe even of all time.
A rare glimpse into the future of climate change, the persevering nature of sisterhood, and the tenacity of the human spirit.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this arc in exchange for an honest review
Trigger warnings: gore, violence, death, death of a loved one, suicide, terminal illness, drowning, choking, mass death, grief, natural disasters 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 its up to Cee to cross the ocean and find her.
In a world apart,yearold STEM prodigy Kasey Mizuhara lives in an ecocity built for people who protected the planetand now need protecting from it.
With natural disasters on the rise due to climate change, ecocities 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, doesnt 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 its been three months since Celias disappearance, and Kasey has given up hope, Logic says that her sister must be dead, But nevertheless, she decides to retrace Celias last steps, Where theyll lead her, she does not know, Her sister was full of secrets, But Kasey has a secret of her own, How do you write a postapocalyptic novel when the world is on fire
Everybody else had it easy.
Philip K. Dick could write books about authoritarian governments and robots taking over and have them still be fun because his audience didn't have little rectangles with human names in their homes, CONSTANTLY LISTENING.
George Orwell could write about, . . also authoritarian governments because Edward Snowden was not yet a twinkle in his parents' eye, and the NSA or whatever its British equivalent was not yet a twinkle in an evil gross bureuacrat's.
And also, none of them were writing about climate change,
I'll read about crazy governments making children kill each other for national entertainment, because that's obviously cool and interesting.
I'll read about crazy governments making children join castes based on a singular personality trait, because that's relatively cool and interesting.
I'll read PKD and Orwell, because even when they aren't cool and interesting I'm a sucker for someone saying something is a must read.
But I'm at a point where I don't want to read about global pandemics from flulike illnesses, and I DEFINITELY don't want to read about global warming.
Because both are real and both are everyone's day to day life and no one can forget about them for
a second anyway.
There's something escapist about reading about POSTapocalyptic books, We're in the apocalypse now I haven't seen that movie or else I'd make a cool reference, so reading about things being worse casts things into a kind of sharp relief sometimes.
But this was not escapist, because I was reading it when it wasdegrees outside and wildfire smoke was making everything fuzzy, and now I'm reviewing it days after flooding shut my city down.
If I'm going to read about climate change, it turns out, I don't want to read a fictionalized look at how everything is terrible and it will never get better, only worse.
I want to read long essays in esteemed publications, or I want to read books like sitelinkSally Rooney's latest, which fill me with even a little bit of hope.
This was well done, and everything, I just hated every second of reading it,
Bottom line: Everything is terrible! I don't read to be reminded of that,
prereview
no thoughts head empty just "pretty girls on cover"
update: probably no book could live up to that cover.
but this one certainly did not,
review to come /stars,