From the writer of the Bird Box comes INSPECTION, another bizarre storyline by Josh Malerman that you cannot put down. This is another one of those psychological thrillers that I love reading to the end. This novel with its peculiar scenario, Malerman is able to shock readers again with his imagination of a school deep in the forest filled with nothing but boys! They do not know that girls exist. Can you imagine a world of the same sex and not knowing any difference?

J is a boy who is a student in an all boys' school hidden away in the forest. They do not know the outside world exists along with the opposite sex, girls. These boys have never even heard of the word girls or women. There are twenty-six boys with their father who is the head or founder of the school. They have inspections every morning and answer to their father on every thought that they have. Or at least they are supposed to. They are being trained and groomed to be the prodigies of art, the best that they can be without distractions.

Then somewhere a few ways away in the forest is another school full of girls being raised for the same reasons. They too do not know that boys exist. But then K, a girl makes a discovery that cannot be explained. She comes across the secret that leads her and J to find out answers before it is too late.

It takes real imagination to come up with a scenario like this. Josh Malerman may be known for his eerie plots that leave you asking your self questions about what if. INSPECTION has an ending that I wondered about throughout my reading. With a novel like this, I wondered where Malerman gets his inspiration from to develop such unnerving but great plots. I cannot wait to see what else he comes up with in the future.