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Denise Kawaii lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and young son. Together they go on grand adventures that translate into even grander stories.
Kawaii began writing professionally in 2010 and currently writes under the umbrella of http://KawaiiTimes.com. Kawaii also writes under the names D.K. Greene (horror/suspense) and D.K. Rogers (children's literature).
Reviewed by Ellen Odza for Readers' Favorite
Boy 1124562 is one of hundreds and hundreds of Boys that follow the same routine day after day, always wanting to be Good Boys and obey the cold steel Nurses. Life is dull and uniformity is the goal – to be a Good Boy you must not be different; you must follow the rules, you must not question the way things are. For there is nothing else and there could never be anything else. Anomalous behavior is swiftly punished and boys quickly learn to behave. But Boy 1124562, or 62 as he is known, is not the same as his many, many identical brothers. He dreams. And dreaming is not permitted. If his dreaming is discovered, he may be taken away to be disciplined or fixed. And most of those who are taken away never come back.
In Adaline, Denise Kawaii has created a tense and frightening utopia where sameness and subservience are rewarded and anomalies are quickly excised. We view this world through the eyes of 62, a boy who is different and who struggles to understand and accept his differences. We see his relationship with 71, his teacher, and his friendship with another boy, 99, who may also be experiencing his own anomalies. The book begins with no explanation of how this culture developed and we learn about the history along with 62. And we discover what happens when one boy deviates from the set routine in a fixed and sterile culture. This book completely sucked me in; I devoured it from start to finish and cannot wait for the next book in the series.
