I cannot find the right words to express to you how much I enjoyed this book. I feel like it has been a while since I found myself looking forward to spending all my free time reading. I finished this in less than three days, beginning the book on a Sunday, reading during my lunch hours at work on Monday and Tuesday, and picking the book back up as soon as I got home. I put off chores, cooking, eating, and even showering, all so that I could reach the end of this novel.
This story follows five different people, each of them in a different situation with their ‘one’. In this reality, science has discovered a way to help you find your perfect match. It turns out that there exists a gene within the human DNA that is the counterpart to exactly one other person. If you meet this person you are struck with an overwhelming sensation of joy, desire, and completeness. Meeting your one is followed by such strong feelings to be with them that it often ends existing relationships. Even just being aware that you have a match can make you doubt any certainty that you are truly happy with your current partner, if you have one. And knowing that there might be a match out there for you could make you reluctant to even consider dating anyone else. But matches aren’t always who you expect them to be. Sometimes people from other sides of the planet are matched, sometimes the people are decades apart in age, and sometimes your match ends up being of a gender that you have never been attracted to. Finding your match isn’t always a dream, sometimes it can end up being an absolute nightmare.
I wish I could read this book again for the first time, and that is praise that I do not hand out very often. I don’t even remember where I heard about this book, but I am glad that I finally bought it and decided that it needed to move to the top of my pile. The book also happens to have been developed into a show, which I am not incredibly interested in watching. If you aren’t much of a reader, maybe watch the show. If it is anywhere near as good as the book then I’m certain it has the potential to be very enjoyable.
Nonfiction and Nonsense 