The Ones We're Meant to Find

A New York Times Bestseller
An Indie Bestseller


Perfect for fans of Marie Lu and E. Lockhart, The Ones We're Meant to Find is a gripping and heartfelt YA sci-fi with mind-blowing twists. Set in a climate-ravaged future, Joan He's beautifully written novel follows the story of two sisters, separated by an ocean, desperately trying to find each other.

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.

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Published May 4, 2021

384 pages

Average rating: 7.68

25 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

Shahna
Jul 18, 2024
6/10 stars
okay, I was into it in the beginning, then it dragged a bit, then the end was interesting again.

Again, not liking robot futures! no thank you!
LMahoney
Jan 26, 2024
8/10 stars
I devoured the last 1/3 of this book needing to know what happens and wow. such an interesting plot and sadly, so realistic too. I LOVED Cee
Mirandacakes
Oct 27, 2023
10/10 stars


TL; DR:
I definitely recommend this book. Give it a chance if you enjoy Black Mirror esque sci-fi tales that draw you in and make you think.

Full Thoughts:
To start, I don’t think the dust jacket cover does this book justice. It just doesn’t sell the book, and is a huge reason why I’ve put off reading this. I’ve seen a lot of people say they love the cover, and while it’s pretty, it just does NOT fit the book in my opinion.

So this day on my shelf, collecting dust, until I finally read the blurb inside and found myself interested. This was a sci-fi book? And not some book club fiction book? Colour me intrigued.

And then I started reading and was instantly hooked. You get the two perspectives of Cee and Kasey as they both are working towards the same goal in completely different ways and from their own unique angles. The sci-fi future the author designed is interesting and unique and yet all too affected by human nature.

Cee is a positive, kind, talkative character and her island survival endeavors have you rooting for her success as she tries to find a way to find Kasey.

Kasey, while not personable like Cee, is quiet and thoughtful and her mind is a machine that seems to be able to solve any problem. She’s pragmatic and while I can’t say I liked her, I was more than intrigued at where her plans and investigations would lead.

And the ending left me so conflicted in the best way, and I think it was a perfect end.
Maria Preston
Aug 20, 2022
5/10 stars
it was a good book , but definetly think its in line for a re read at some point as i found it confusing for at least the first 7 chapters maybe more . but love the idea , and afew of the characters too ..

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