REVIEW: The One by John Marrs @johnmarrs1 @harpercollins
The Oneby John Marrs
Hanover Square Press
HarperCollins
🔥 AVAILABLE 2/20/18 🔥
Thanks so much to HarperCollins for this advanced copy!
While some of you have seen this out for a while, it's being published again via Hanover Square Press in February! I suggest you put this one on your TBR if you're looking for a light thriller that's a quick and very entertaining read.
How far would you go to find THE ONE?
One simple mouth swab is all it takes. A quick DNA test to find your perfect partner – the one you’re genetically made for.
A decade after scientists discover everyone has a gene they share with just one other person, millions have taken the test, desperate to find true love. Now, five more people meet their Match. But even soul mates have secrets. And some are more shocking – and deadlier – than others...
A psychological thriller with a difference, this is a truly unique novel which is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.
My Review:
It seems ingrained in humans to want someone to be with, grow old with.. a partner in life. In today's society, online dating is now the norm. Tinder, Match.com, and eHarmony are just a few of the plentiful sites you can use to find your mate. Take that a step further and let your DNA do the search for you. Swab your mouth, send in your sample and patiently wait and hope that your match in the world has done the same. This ONE person is your other half, the pheromones to your receptors and vice versa. What if you don't find that one? What if you're NOT matched? Do you then question the person you're already with or if you're not with anyone, your own self worth? How can you possibly be with anyone else if this option is out there? HOW?!
We follow the lives of these 5 people:
Mandy, whose siblings have all been matched except for her and she needs validation.
Christopher, a psychopath who was just curious.
Jade, who found her match but he lives on the other side of the world - when will they ACTUALLY meet?
Nick, engaged, but whose fiancée wants them both to take the test to make sure they are destined.
Ellie, a high profile CEO who finds it hard to date "regularly".
Mandy, whose siblings have all been matched except for her and she needs validation.
Christopher, a psychopath who was just curious.
Jade, who found her match but he lives on the other side of the world - when will they ACTUALLY meet?
Nick, engaged, but whose fiancée wants them both to take the test to make sure they are destined.
Ellie, a high profile CEO who finds it hard to date "regularly".
Each short chapter goes back and forth between these five lives and how being matched has changed their lives.
This really is a lighter thriller read and exactly what I needed right now. I can see why some have compared this to a slight Black Mirror episode. It's basically technology and science and how susceptible people can be to an idea that will solve the age old problem of finding your soul mate (or DNA match in this case)... and how it can cause more problems than solve them. About 30% seemed to be actually in the thriller category but who cares? Each short chapter somehow seemed to throw something new at you. I figured a few things out here and there but the majority of the time I was turning the page and going 'WHAT!?!' - the hell, John Marrs... haha - what a delightful, entertaining and scary read. Scary in how humans react to ideas planted in their heads. It's like when you go to a psychic and they say this and this will happen... does it happen because they saw it or is it just your subconscious making it happen because the idea has been planted there? Curiouser and curiouser...
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