The Name on your Wrist - Helen Hiorns

"It's the first thing they teach you when you start school. But they don't need to; your parents tell you when you're first learning how to say your name. It's drummed into you whilst you're taking your first stumbling steps. It's your lullaby. From the moment it first appears, you don't tell anyone the name on your wrist.

In Corin's world, your carpinomen - the name of your soul mate, marked indelibly on your wrist from the age of two or three - is everything. It's your most preciously guarded secret; a piece of knowledge that can give another person ultimate power over you. People spend years, even decades, searching for the one they're supposed to be with.

But what if you never find that person? Or you do, but you just don't love them? What if you fall for someone else - someone other than the name on your wrist?

And what if - like Corin - the last thing in the world you want is to be found?"

This was an okay story, but there were loads of plot holes, and I got bored, which was really disappointing cause I was really looking forward to this book!

Corin was a character that was difficult to really connect with. She dated boys with a certain name to fool people into thinking that that was the name on her wrist. For no reason but emo edge factor. She claimed not to have a problem with the whole ‘soul-mate’ thing but was really shocked when she learned that a married couple weren’t really soul mates, but then at other times totally disparaged the whole idea of soulmates. I really wished that even if she couldn’t tell anyone, the reader could have had more of a clue as to her direction, as she was so hot and cold on her own beliefs that just started to annoy me.

The two sister felt more broken then they should, logically, be. I understood Jacinta's story (Corin's sister) after it come out later in the book but Corin was so aggressive and mean for a reason I couldn't fathom. Of course losing a father must be awful but that doesn't make you a complete cynical bitch to everyone about everything.

Then there was the ending. I’m still not 100% sure exactly what happened, but by that point I was seriously annoyed and bored, but I do know that I didn’t like it. SPOILER. If the whole soulmate thing was just a rouse by the government to keep people in their place and make things easily controlled, wouldn't they have just killed Corin to keep their secret. That would have been a much better story, have Corin find out it was all a rouse earlier in the book, the government hunting her down and her with the aid of her sister team up with the anit-soulmate organisation and try to inform the world. (And end the ban on books because that was awful)

Corin however takes the easy way out, and side steps any world changing or interesting endings. I really wasn’t impressed, and it totally cemented how much I didn’t enjoy this book.

Age Rating 15+. Sex references, suicide attempts, bad language and a seriously dysfunctional family.