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spinstah's review against another edition
3.0
This was pretty enjoyable - it's the story of a young woman, abandoned at birth, who as a young adult is taken to a facility where she's studied because she appears to be immune to a plague sweeping across the planet. This is one of those plague novels where the disease really takes a backseat to the people and their stories, and there are some interesting parallels between her life and how the disease progresses.
niknakpattywhack's review against another edition
4.0
A truly transfixing read. The ideas being delved into are so interesting and complex; the writing so fluid but with a real strength behind it. The thing that took it down a star for me was the book being split up like it was. I completely understand the reasoning behind it, it just made the story a little choppier for me than I would have liked. The characters are so intricate and yet there's a subtly to the information we are given about them. It was truly a joy to read such thought-provoking and relevant writing in a novel that doesn't try and rub it's dystopia in your face.
erinalexdocx's review against another edition
3.0
3.5. Very strange. Bit bleak. Reviews on the back compared it to Never Let Me Go. Definitely not as good but did have that same sense of melancholy and lightness.
cnanian's review against another edition
Couldn’t get into it completely. I’m going to try again in a few months.
calamityandcoffee's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5
melissadelongcox's review against another edition
1.0
DNFed it at page 104. This is the second time I've tried to read it and it's just not happening.
catherine_louise's review against another edition
4.0
This is a book that looks like a post-apocalyptic thriller, but the apocalypse tropes in Find Me are mostly red herrings—Van Den Berg is far more interested in why we remember what we remember, why we forget what we forget, and what it means to do either. On that score it's brilliantly done.
kathleenww's review against another edition
3.0
Another dystopian novel with some great ideas that fell just short of being fully developed and wonderful. It's wonderful that more female writers are writing stories like this, and there were aspects of this that I loved and felt were well done, but other aspects that felt like they were reaching the outer limits of the belivability of any story (coincidences...), even a sci-fi one. While this wasn't necessarily a slog to read (I liked the writing style!), I just felt it was missing a spark. Original ideas that didn't reach their full potential.