I want to say it sort of feels like The Giver but that’s not it. It’s a super creative set up and I was intrigued from the start. Doesn’t sound that intriguing? Wait for it – there are no women. Take a group of 26 boys as infants, put them in a tower with a staff of males to take care of them. This does not end on a cliffhanger, the ending is solid, but the characters are not settled, not yet. I know this is my usual, but I HAVE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERS. As K and J work to investigate the secrets of their two strange schools, they come to discover something even more mysterious: each other.I’ll sum up my reaction to this book for you – I am SO MAD there is no sequel expected. 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 horror 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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