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The One
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Overview
The One (2018) by John Marrs is a USA Today best-selling novel and Wall Street Journal’s Best Science Fiction Book of 2018. The actual genre, however, is difficult to classify. While the story’s overarching premise is science-fiction, the individual stories range from romance to mystery and thriller.
Marrs says that inspiration for The One came from hearing about others’ love-at-first-sight experiences. He wondered what might account for the phenomenon and what would happen were everyone guaranteed such a connection. He tells the story in five novelettes, each with its own protagonist who acts out a different aspect of the promise of one true love.
Marrs is a full-time author and former journalist. He also received The International Thriller Writers Thriller Award for What Lies Between Us (2020), with The Good Samaritan (2018) as a finalist. The book has been adapted into a Netflix series.
Plot Summary
The One presents five synchronous narratives, each one exploring the possibility that everyone has a soulmate. In the novel, Match Your DNA is a company claiming that, provided with a client’s DNA sample, it can infallibly “Match” the client with their soulmate within the company’s genetic database.
The novel’s chapters cycle through the five protagonists’ plotlines.
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