“Finn had been flung on his face and chained to the stone slabs of the transitway. If the aim is to reel you in, then Incarceron drops a net around you and hauls you off into the darkness. Anyway, onwards!Īny author worth his or her literary salt will tell you that the opening sentence is the most important. I found it surprisingly action-packed and imaginative, and thankfully, it has managed to avoid the plethora of pitfalls that seem to pervade YA these days. Incarceron is a jumbled brew of fantasy, sci-fi, and young adult fiction. Her writing CV reads like a YA bestsellers list, and the Sunday Times quotes her as ‘A writer of rare talent’. Catherine Fisher, unbeknownst to me before spying the glittery cover of Incarceron at my local bookstore, is a veritable factory of fiction. It’s a crazy, cool, dark world … it’s a great story.First, a word on the author. And so the plan for Finn’s escape is born … ‘ I loved the book. 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.
She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists.
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. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. 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. Incarceron – a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery.
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