Our next review is going to be on Incarceron, by Catherine Fisher.
This book is easily one of the best books I have ever read. EVERYTHING about it is deliciously original. The author is an experienced master with several books already underfoot.
But what makes this book stand out? For one, the characters. Each character has their own unique struggles. Finn, the character the book follows half of the time, tries to escape the cutt-throat world of Incarceron with his (Less than honorable) partners. The difference between him and many of the other main characters that I've read? He is not afraind to cut a few throats himself. The other character Incarceron follow is the daughter of Incareron's warden. Claudia has to navigate the cutt-throat world of the kingdom's polotics. She hates it, but (Unlike many female characters in her position) she doesn't whine about it. She manuevers in the same sly fashion I found Finn using.
The setting would have to be my favorite part of the story. Incarceron is a prison. Not just a prison. A living prison. It lives to torture its inhabitants, despite what the warden had been telling the people of the Realm. The Realm is a futuristic kingdom that got stuck in history. Gears and wires work behind the scenes of the rich's homes to make them "Historically accurate and sociably exceptable". Very deceptive. Very steampunk. Very original. Delicious.
My one complaint would be the lack of honorable characters. I'm the type of reader who needs someone to root for. Some that is like a bright, shining light of honesty. Incarceron does not have those. The story has no room for them. So, it works best for the story to not have nice people, but it sure makes me sad.
All in all, I would say that this book is a well written, original piece. It belongs in the hands of any teenager or adult who loves to read fantasy, steampunk, or sci-fi books.
-K
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