Cherry Heaven

Cherry Heaven by L.J. Adlington is is a companion piece to The Diary of Pelly D.. It's not a full sequel in that the events take place in between the two halves of the original — sometime after the original genetic wars mentioned by Pelly D. but before the demolition work of Toni V.

Like the original, Cherry Heaven is told in a parallel structure, one from the point of view of a factory worker in the Blue Mountain bottling company, a deplorable sweatshop on the edge of town, and a family of refugees from the genetic wars of City Five.

The refugee family moves into an abandoned cherry farm, a once beautiful place, but not falling onto hard times. The cherry trees are dead or dying and many are rotten. Plus the place appears to be haunted show more both by the bad karma of a decade old mass murder, and by a shadowy figure who is stalking the girls now living there.

Cherry Heaven is more of a straight up mystery — like Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie than its predecessor. The keys to the mystery lie in the how the parallel stories relate and in what secrets the modern day town leadership is hiding. show less

Well-written, engrossing tale of two teens experiencing very different lives in the same world. Good science-fiction with thoughts on race relations that apply to the modern world. Definitely recommended.

In this companion to 2005's The Diary of Pelly D, Kat and Tanka J leave their war-torn city and head to the New Frontier with their adoptive parents. Luka, an escaped factory worker, convinces them that their new home is not all it seems be. With this exploration of the aftereffects of genocide, Adlington has created another memorable dystopian novel.

Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com

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.

This book begins with one of the main characters, Luka P, and her idea to escape from a place called Factory. The other main character is Kataka J. She and her family have just moved to the Frontier from the Cities. Throughout the book Kataka tries to figure out the secrets that are kept within the town of Meander and at Cherry Heaven. This book is extremely interesting because of the futuristic setting and the use of two point of views.

This sequel to The Diary of Pelly D. continues the Holocaust theme in sci-fi form by telling the story of the horrors of the Atsumisi (Nazi) slave labor camps and the complacency of the local citizens who turned a blind eye on what was happening in their own backyards.

Kat and Tanka J leave the war-torn city, move with their adoptive parents to the New Frontier, and are soon settled into a home called Cherry Heaven, but Luka, an escaped factory worker, confirms their suspicion that New Frontier is not the utopia it seems to be.