Series: Yes, link to my review of sequel, Sapphique
Copyright: 2010
Publisher: Dial
Buy: Amazon
Summary:
Incarceron is a prison with a conscious. The realm outside the prison once knew great progress and scientific advancements under the Sapient who created the prison. The prison was created as a place for prisoners to reform and create a new perfect society. Claudia is the daughter of the Warden of the prison. She does not understand the prison nor her father. Claudia was engaged to the prince of the realm who disappeared. She does not want to marry the new prince. Wanting to know more about her father and out of frustration she steals a key from his office. The key connects her to the world inside the prison and Finn a young man who remembers the stars something not seen in Incarceron. Finn and Claudia talk of the world inside the prison and the failure of the Sapienti to create a peaceful world full of moral and perfection. They begin to plan Finn and his friends Attia and Keiro's escape from the prison.
Feelings:
I enjoyed the idea of a futuristic prison that is animated and can talk and think for it's self. The characters in the book are human while existing in a world that is foreign and strange and changing even to the inhabitants of the prison. Curiosity plays a big part in what happens in the story. Sapphique idolized by both the prison itself and those within the prison has escaped to the outside world. None know how he did so and the prison itself have a conscious of it's own craves knowledge of what is beyond itself. There are so may things about this book that make you stop and wonder or ponder the possibilities of such inventions. While the realm outside of the prison has been trapped in the 18th century without progress Incarceron is full of change and uncertainty. The differences between the inside and outside of the prison are what drive the story. I recommend Incarceron by Catherine fisher, and I look forward to the next book.
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