A review by caseyaonso
The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He

2.0

Damn lol. Ngl this was tough to get through, the first 65% ish of this book is (imo) needlessly convoluted, tons of info dumping on technicalities that leave you super overwhelmed with info that clouded the vision of the story instead of helping to paint the world. There are some really interesting themes in here when it comes to innovation, climate change, even the politics of ai and of course sisterhood but i don’t think it was balanced well and it felt like they were trying to cover way too much in a single book. I don’t think it’s impossible to cover these topics in one book especially since they intersect with eachother, maybe it was the dual pov or the pacing but to me the story felt overcrowded and as a result doesn't go into as much depth as i would have liked it to. Even toward the end once things cleared up, for what this story was trying to communicate- SO much of the confusion that makes this book hard to stick with in the first half wasn’t needed. I think this could have worked better as a duology where there’d be enough room for the story to breathe a bit and go deeper into the periphery conflicts that i think should have been a bit more present in the story overall. The twist was good though you got me there lol