A review by shoni
The Ones We're Meant To Find by Joan He

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

 You know think by now I have learned to not go in blind in a book. I knew nothing. It came highly recommended and Joan He's writing is amazing so of course I didn't even question it and picked it up. This did cause me to be a bit confused in the first 100 pages for a bit because the world-building just threw me off and I wasn't sure what the story itself was supposed to be. But that's around the time it started to make sense and I could see where we were, where the story was going. 

Shortly after the story started I knew Cee and Kasey were somehow connected and I just couldn't figure it out.
idk if it is a spoiler but I did think they were sisters for like the first few pages until I acutally thought about it.
But the way Joan wrote both parts so seemlessly making it clear they connect somehow.
Like i'm still not over how it was right when Cee lost Hubert, you see Kasey discover Hubert, like it's clear from the beginning that they take place at different times but at the same time you want to believe it and thing its happening at the same time and time just moves differently in Kasey's world than Cee's.
Joan just managed to write about critizisim of the envormental and issues in such a way that can seem ridiculous but at the same time so real. You can see how people are slowly ignoring such important issues because it doesn't matter, it isn't an inconvenience to them at the moment, it will be an issue for the future generation. Which is the whole point of this book, stop making it other peoples problem who will suffer because of you. 

I also love how each character you mean did play an important part in the story. No one was insignificant. They all either come back or you see why they showed up int first place. 

CAN WE ALSO APPCICIATE THE TWIST! Oh my god those were justs so well done and both foreshadowed but also in such a way that you still were shocked and not ready for it. I also  spend the last few chapters of the book just sitting in my sorrow and tears out of shock, sadness, hurt, aweness. Like everything. I think i went through all emotions a human can possible posses plus more at the end. Joan He really knows how to get the readers to feel and question. Her writing is truly something everyone must read. This book might have made me feel all of things but in all good ways. 
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