Incarceron

I really enjoyed this book. I thought it clever. I thought it original. I thought it unique. I read it in a day. It was a perfect book for vacation. If you wold like to read a synopsis, click here.

I wonder as I read children's or young adult fiction, I wonder if I would have understood it as a child. Or maybe better, I wonder what I would have understood it to mean. Sort of like when you watch a movie like "Shrek", a children's movie, cough, cough, though it is the adults who get all the jokes. I enjoyed this book today, I don't know if I would have enjoyed it as a child.

Enjoy

incarceron

I enjoyed this book honestly, didn't think it would be as intriguing as it was but I was pleasantly surprised. It is another YA novel, (I know - really Kirsten? yeah... they're kind of addicting), the summary:

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 ...

The story was unique, it kept me turning the pages, and I enjoyed that I couldn't ever quite guess who's side people were on. It was a fast, quick, entertaining read. I didn't absolutely love it but I'd give it 3 1/2 stars. The second one, Sapphique, comes out at the end of December and I'm looking forward to reading it!