Where confined us behind a blindfold, Inspection rips it off.” -The A. As he did in Bird Box, Malerman’s crafted an irresistible scenario that’s rich in possibility and thematic fruit. “This unlikely cross between 1984 and Lord of the Flies tantalizes.”-Kirkus Reviews Inspection is rich with dread and builds to a dramatic climax.”-The Washington Post a novel whose premise is also claustrophobic and unsettling, but more ambitious than that of Bird Box. As K and J work to investigate the secrets of their two strange schools, they come to discover something even more mysterious: each other. J has never seen a girl, and K has never seen a boy. Meanwhile, on the other side of the forest, in a school very much like J’s, a girl named K is asking the same questions. What is the real purpose of this place? Why can the students never leave? And what secrets is their father hiding from them? The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they know-and all they are allowed to know.īut J suspects that there is something out there, beyond the pines, that the founder does not want him to see, and he’s beginning to ask questions. J’s peers are the only family he has ever had. J is one of only twenty-six students, all of whom think of the school’s enigmatic founder as their father. J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. “Josh Malerman is a master at unsettling you-and keeping you off-balance until the last page is turned.”-Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Blackbirds The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box invites you into a world of secrets and chills in a coming-of-age story like no other. Neither knows the other exists-until now. Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another.

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