This book was the definition of a thriller. I was looking for a unique thriller, and boy did I find the one, literally. I have been keeping my distance from thrillers these days because I feel like I’m seeing a common pattern amongst them (girl on a train/girl by a window/girl in a cabin/girl always somewhere doing something). That caught my attention right off the bat. I heard it being referred to as a dark thriller and compared to the Netflix series “Black Mirror”. I have been hearing a lot of buzz about this book called “ The One” by John Marrs. We will never think of love and relationships in the same way again."Hands up if you have recently sacrificed sleep to finish reading a book! For those of you raising your hands right now, welcome to my sleepless, book hangover club. "The idea is simple, but the implications are explosive. No matter how good your relationship, which one of us can honestly say we haven’t thought about whether there is someone better out there? What if a hair sample is all it takes to find them?
The official synopsis for the Netflix show reads: "The One is set five minutes in the future, in a world where a DNA test can find your perfect partner – the one person you’re genetically predisposed to fall passionately in love with. The One is available to stream on Netflix now. It also explores how the dating service has affected a number of its users, with their storylines all interlinked with each other. It centres around CEO Rebecca ( played by Hannah Ware), who is very intelligent but extremely reckless - with scenes from the past showing the company's shady beginnings.
The show tells the story of a dating service that uses DNA technology to find the user's perfect match. Read more: Will there be a season two of The One on Netflix? What is Netflix's The One about? But the discovery has its downsides: test results have led to the breakup of countless relationships and upended the traditional ideas of dating, romance and love." Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched.
A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. "That’s the promise made by Match Your DNA.
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