You’ll want to dislike them for what they have done, but you can’t help yourself from being intrigued by them. There are obvious standouts in those the reader will love and those the reader will hate, but there are also a handful you’ll be left with mixed emotions on. The main reason I found myself so engrossed in the story is the characters. Within the confines of the Turret…should the truth feel so rare? I wanted to keep reading to find out more. Yes, there is a lot of backstory and build-up with the book, but I was never once bored. I’ve seen a lot of reviews declaring INSPECTION to be too slow, but I didn’t find myself in that camp.

There is also a dash of thriller thrown in to keep the reader on the edge of their seat. There is a lot of mystery to the story mixed with a dystopian setting that certainly employs horrific behaviors. Just dystopian enough to have you creeped out.įor me the book as a whole isn’t necessarily what I would place solely in the horror genre. The idea is just crazy enough that someone, somewhere could think it up and try to make it a reality. The story of how The Parenthood and subsequently the Alphabet Boys came to be was fascinating to me. I’ve never read a story quite like INSPECTION before and I found the overall plot to be extremely original. This is the perfect book to go into blindly and for that reason I’m going to keep my review a bit vague as far as plot goes. I read the synopsis for this one several months before actually picking it up and by the time my copy arrived I had forgotten much about the storyline. INSPECTION is one of those books that I recommend avoiding reading too much about before you start it for yourself.

His reward, yes, but his panic, his horror, too. What is there for him beyond the only walls he’s ever known?Ī man spends all his time building something and that object becomes his everything. Despite all the teachings telling him that there is nothing for him beyond the pines, J can’t help but feel a pull. The Parenthood is the only family he has ever known. To them there is nothing beyond the pine trees that surround their home except disease.

They have no knowledge of the outside world or the opposite sex. Twenty-six boys have lived within the walls of the Turret their whole lives. The Alphabet Boys are being trained at a school built to raise geniuses by a group known as The Parenthood.

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