Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

by Catherine Fisher

Incarceron - a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology - a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber - chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here.

In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison - a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device - a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born ... "I loved the book. It's a crazy, cool, dark world ... it's a great story." -- Taylor Lautner, star of the Twilight movies

Reviewed by Hixxup on

2 of 5 stars

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ok this is more of a 2.5- 2.75 It would have been a much better book, if the author would havetaken the time to explain some things, like more about Claudia's world and the "era" and more about Incarceron and what exactly was going on in there. But the fact that she left it to where you had to guess kinda threw me off from the book. But I kept at it and after a while I understood it more, but the appeal of the book was lost. It got way better near the end of course but still the ending wasnt' able to raise my opinion of this book. It kinda reminded me of a bizarrer version of "The Princess Bride" the way it kept bouncing back between worlds, and in some ways it was confusing. I don't know if I will read Sapphique, it's up for debate, but I kinda want to know what happens because they did leave it as a cliffhanger.

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