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'a convincingly told and gripping story'
(TES )Original and beguiling.
(Love Reading )This multifaceted novel’s chilling portrayal of gene wars, slavery and prejudice will haunt readers long after the book is finished. But it is also a skilfully crafted mystery, slowly mounting up evidence towards a heart-stopping climax.
(Voya )This is an exciting and convincing narrative which raises important questions about human rights and individual freedoms.
(School Librarian )
Part SF, part mystery, this is a compelling tale of life on another planet where intolerance still elads to discrimination and violence.
(Kliatt )In this complex, absorbing, and sometimes disquieting novel, Adlington creates a world that is distinctly different from our own, yet chillingly familiar.
(Starred Review, Books for Youth )PRAISE FOR THE DIARY OF PELLY D
'... catches you by the throat and it doesn't let you go even when you have read the last paragraph. This is a brilliant example of storytelling at its most seductive ... a fastpaced, utterly absorbing novel that is hard to put down ...' (Sunday Morning Post, John Millen )
'L J Adlington's spare and concise voice brings Pelly D vividly to life ... will intrigue and grip from the first diary entry to the open-ended and chilling conclusion.' (Pocklington Post )
'Written in the breathless, racy style of a young teenager, Pelly's diaries just keep you reading ... It gives an old theme a fresh twist ...' (York Evening Press )
'... a clever, unusual story that readers looking for something different will find captivating. The book reveals its secrets slowly with maximum impact.' (South China Morning Post )
'Adlington has crafted an original and disturbing dystopian fantasy told in a smart and sympathetic teen voice.' (Booklist )
'This book is one thing: amazing.' (Voya )
'In this powerful debut novel, Adlington deftly sketches in the background to Pelly D’s increasingly totalitarian world, whilst allowing her sparky heroine centre stage.'
(Books for Keeps September 05 )Product Description
It is 10 years after the events in The Diary of Pelly D. A new life in The New Frontier overseas beckons Kat and Tanka, far from the terrible war in the cities, that took their parents. In a beautiful new home, Cherry Heaven, where people are building a young, liberal society, without focus on the genetic categorization and discrimination that led to the war. But all too soon Kat and Tanka find that Cherry Heaven carries haunting marks of the past. They cannot run from them, and must finally and turn and face them. Again, L. J Adlington weaves her narrative expertly from two voices, Kat, teenage, light, modern and knowing, the other a disturbed, fragmented narrative from another girl which peals away the surface of the New Frontier to expose a different and more disturbing truth. Exploring issues of postwar guilt and redemption, tension and reconciliation, framed in a fast-moving mystery, this has the same engrossing readability and accessibility as Pelly D.
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Format:Paperback
Cherry Heaven, the author's second novel and a sequel to The Diary of Pelly D, is a story that reached out and kept me reading, no matter how much I needed to put it down and do something else, bed or work for example.Cherry Heaven is a gripping thriller in which the pace builds from the introduction of two city girls to life on the new frontier to the finale where we have to think about evil that is done in the name of good and where we draw the line in investigating atrocities. Give this a try, you won't regret it, Luka's horrible childhood will keep you wanting to read more and at the end of it you'll have something real to think about.
The last birthday i ever had, years ago, was the one where I got shot instead of presents.
11 Nov 2008
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After the death of their parents, Tanka and Kat J. leave behind their war ravaged home in City Five and journey with their aunt and uncle to a fresh start on the New Frounteer. Their new home promises a life free from prejudice, where people are no longer judged by their genetic codes, shown by colour of their hand stamps. But a sinster secret lurks behind this too-good-to-be-true façade.
While the city girls travel in style, another girl isn't so lucky. Bottleseal 55 is trapped in the endless servitude of the Hydro Factory. But she remembers a time before. She remembers that her real name is Luka, and she has a plan to get revenge.
L.J. Adlington has cleverly disguised a sci fi story about prejudice, discrimination and genetic inequality behind a light and easy to read piece of teenaged fiction. Our heroine is the smart-but-shy Kat, overshadowed by her more outgoing sister Tanka. While Tanka concentrates on her looks and popularity, Kat is haunted by the mystery that surrounds their new home. Their story is intersperced with chapters from the point of view of Luka, on her desperate quest to escape and get back at those who destroyed her life.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed 'The Handmaid's Tale', by Margaret Atwood, the 'Noughts and Crosses' sequence by Malorie Blackman or 'The Declaration' by Gemma Malley.
While the city girls travel in style, another girl isn't so lucky. Bottleseal 55 is trapped in the endless servitude of the Hydro Factory. But she remembers a time before. She remembers that her real name is Luka, and she has a plan to get revenge.
L.J. Adlington has cleverly disguised a sci fi story about prejudice, discrimination and genetic inequality behind a light and easy to read piece of teenaged fiction. Our heroine is the smart-but-shy Kat, overshadowed by her more outgoing sister Tanka. While Tanka concentrates on her looks and popularity, Kat is haunted by the mystery that surrounds their new home. Their story is intersperced with chapters from the point of view of Luka, on her desperate quest to escape and get back at those who destroyed her life.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed 'The Handmaid's Tale', by Margaret Atwood, the 'Noughts and Crosses' sequence by Malorie Blackman or 'The Declaration' by Gemma Malley.
Format:Paperback
History repeats itself.
Everyone left Earth because of all the fighting and destruction of the planet. All these people left for a better chance at life, but they've forgotten their past mistakes.
Kat and Tanka move to the New Frontier with their foster parents ten years after the war killed their real parents. The New Frontier is taking giant leaps in equality for everyone, keeping peace, and helping to rebuild this world.
Unfortunately, there's a secret behind the equality and it's about to be exposed.
CHERRY HEAVEN, the companion novel to THE DIARY OF PELLY D, will open your eyes towards war and give new meaning to the word hope.
Reviewed by: Jennifer Rummel
Everyone left Earth because of all the fighting and destruction of the planet. All these people left for a better chance at life, but they've forgotten their past mistakes.
Kat and Tanka move to the New Frontier with their foster parents ten years after the war killed their real parents. The New Frontier is taking giant leaps in equality for everyone, keeping peace, and helping to rebuild this world.
Unfortunately, there's a secret behind the equality and it's about to be exposed.
CHERRY HEAVEN, the companion novel to THE DIARY OF PELLY D, will open your eyes towards war and give new meaning to the word hope.
Reviewed by: Jennifer Rummel
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