Sunday, January 11, 2009

Cherry Heaven, by L.J. Adlington


Cherry Heaven is the name of the property where Kat and her sister Tanka have moved with their parents. They are settlers in a new, frontier community far from the big cities where a race war based on one's DNA is raging. Based on DNA tests, everyone has one of three colors of tattoo on the back of their hand. Here on the frontier there is peace, but the girls soon discover that peace hasn't come without a price, and DNA discrimination has not really been eliminated in the frontier as they have been told. In fact, the "lowest" caste has been turned into slave laborers, and a revolution is about to be ignited right in their own backyard when a slave escapes and tries to return to her former home of Cherry Heaven. The story reads like a mystery as the girls discover the truth about Cherry Heaven and just how powerful and ruthless the politicians in charge truly are beneath their charming ways.

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