The Ones We're Meant to Find

By Joan He

Book Overview

Perfect for fans of Rick Yancey and Marie Lu, The Ones We're Meant to Find is a sci-fi fantasy with mind-blowing twists, ready to burst onto the YA scene, from the critically-acclaimed Descendant of the Crane author, Joan He.

Cee awoke on an abandoned island three years ago. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single memory: she has a sister, and Cee needs to find her.

STEM prodigy Kasey wants escape from the science and home she once trusted. The Metropolis--Earth's last unpolluted place--is meant to be a sanctuary for those committed to planetary protection, but it's populated by people willing to do anything for refuge, even lie. Now, she'll have to decide if she's ready to use science to help humanity, even though it failed the people who mattered most.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250833140
• ISBN13: 9781250833143
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Square Fish
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Sisters Forever!

This was a very interesting read. It did not go the way I expected, starting out with Cee on an island, mostly amnesic but looking for her sister and Kasey high up in a city in the sky trying to find out about her sister. Seems pretty normal, especially with this dystopian future, but then it takes a major twist which was not what I expected but I still liked the book. I do like the love that the sisters have for each other, despite being so different, one being scientific and distant and the other full of life and going all out on everything.. I really hope that we do not get as bad as what the humans did in this book, not ready for megaquakes and poisoning of the earth due to chemicals and drilling and all that. That was a sobering thing to read about while Kasey is working with Actinium to figure out what happened with Celia. This was a good book to read and it kinda makes you think about how we could end up like that, or at least I did. And I like the family bonds of Celia and Kasey. I also think the cover is gorgeous!

Haunting, lyrical, thought provoking science fiction

The Ones We're Meant to Find is a beautifully written story told from the perspective of two sisters living on a dystopian near future earth ravaged by natural disasters caused by climate change and pollution. Cee woke up naked and alone on an abandoned island three years ago, her only companion a bot called U-me. She is compelled to cross the sea to find her sister Kay, but suffers from amnesia. She has been struggling to survive and build a boat. Kasey lives in a sky city above the ocean which has been designed to minimize environmental impact and carbon output. Her sister Celia disappeared several months ago and is presumed dead. Kasey struggles to relate to other people (she perhaps has ASD) but is a scientific genius. She has been investigating the disappearance of her sister. The reader is kept in the dark initially and has the feeling that something isn't adding up. There is an enormous twist that explains everything. The Ones We're Meant to Find is an emotional, lyrical thought provoking book with enormous depth. It raises questions about the price future generations will pay for our irresponsibility and carelessness, about what makes life meaningful and worth living, about what should be rights and what should be freedoms. This haunting story will stay with you long after you close the cover.