![]() ![]() We get to experience D.A.D.’s (aka Richard’s) paranoia and descent into psychosis first hand. We don’t often get to read dystopian books from the view of the psycho in charge of it all, but in Malerman’s Inspection, we do. Watching J (and later, K of the girls tower) witness a member of the opposite sex for the first time at 12 years old is the highlight of Inspection and something Malerman did well.Īnother compelling point of the book is D.A.D’s point of view. That particular plotline is pretty compelling. ![]() However, the inspections can’t catch everything: J finds out about the existence of women, and that’s enough to get a child killed in Malerman’s book. These inspections are designed to root out any secrets the kids may be keeping, under the guise of keeping them free of made-up illnesses. ![]() “Inspections” are regular occurrences for the children in the towers. after all, and we get these really human moments of a sad, scared J wishing to tell his deepest, darkest secrets to a man who (the reader knows) will kill him for those secrets. J struggles with wanting to believe that D.A.D has his best interests at heart. “J” is a 12-year-old alphabet boy of the boys’ tower and one of our main characters. I thought the children were, at times, well written. ![]() I did enjoy the first 60% or so of the book. ![]()
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