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A review by novi
The One by John Marrs
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.5
The brief synopsis of this book always mentioned "what if the love of your life is a serial killer" but the book is more than that. It basically explored this idea "what if we can find the love of our life by finding the DNA that matches or compatible with our DNA?". It showed us various scenarios that can happen, via these set of characters. We're following 5 different stories (cmiiw) that revolves around that and the serial killer one is just one of the scenarios. All of the stories are equally interesting and thrilling for me.
At first I was like "this is more like a romance than thriller?" but actually it's a mix of them and as the story goes by, oh they were definitely thrillers. Some stories might not feel as thriller-y, but they're still very interesting to follow, and some are A LOT. Especially that we're reading about these cases at the same time, when usually in other thriller books we only follow one case. Here we definitely follow more than one.
This exploration of human behaviour is really interesting and it's an experience that I enjoyed. It also made me think a lot about relationships and ethics. Although it doesn't reach that 5-star factor for me (maybe because it was lagging a little bit in the middle), I still really like it and I really recommend it.
At first I was like "this is more like a romance than thriller?" but actually it's a mix of them and as the story goes by, oh they were definitely thrillers. Some stories might not feel as thriller-y, but they're still very interesting to follow, and some are A LOT. Especially that we're reading about these cases at the same time, when usually in other thriller books we only follow one case. Here we definitely follow more than one.
This exploration of human behaviour is really interesting and it's an experience that I enjoyed. It also made me think a lot about relationships and ethics. Although it doesn't reach that 5-star factor for me (maybe because it was lagging a little bit in the middle), I still really like it and I really recommend it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Blood
there are two times in the book that has a few paragraphs of gory details, involving someone's entire face (and face parts) and neck. but othee than that, i personally think it's not very graphic.