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    Incarceron

    Written by Catherine Fisher

    Narrated by Kim Mai Guest

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    About this audiobook

    Incarceron is a prison unlike any other: Its inmates live not only in cells, but also in metal forests, dilapidated cities, and unbounded wilderness. The prison has been sealed for centuries, and only one man, legend says, has ever escaped.

    Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, can’t remember his childhood and believes he came from Outside Incarceron. He’s going to escape, even though most inmates don’t believe that Outside even exists. And then Finn finds a crystal key and through it, a girl named Claudia.

    Claudia claims to live Outside—her father is the Warden of Incarceron and she’s doomed to an arranged marriage. If she helps Finn escape, she will need his help in return. But they don’t realize that there is more to Incarceron than meets the eye. Escape will take their greatest courage and cost far more than they know.

    Because Incarceron is alive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 9, 2010
    ISBN9780307707086
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    Incarceron
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    Catherine Fisher

    Catherine Fisher's acclaimed works include Darkhenge, Snow-walker, and The Oracle Betrayed, which was a finalist for the Whitbread Children's Book Award. She lives in Newport, Wales.

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    • 4/5
      Incarceron is one of the most beautifully written and descriptive books I have had the opportunity to read this year. The story is woven in a way that pulls you in so deeply, that even if you don't always grasp exactly what's going on at the moment, you still feel like you NEED to know what happens. In a world filled with so many predictable plots, Incarceron really glowed for me!

      First off, I was enamored with the thought of a sentient prison. A prison that has a personality, one that can modify itself at a whim to keep its prisoners in check, what could be more horrifying? One of the things I love most about the genre of Speculative Fiction is the innate fear of technology that pervades it. Authors share with us worlds where technology is given so much leeway, that it ends up ruling us all. This prison is encompasses everything I love about the world of Speculative Fiction.

      We follow Finn, a prisoner in this high tech prison, through his daily life and his plans for escape. I loved Finn. I felt so much more him throughout the entire story. A character capable of deep thought, constantly at war within himself to remember a life he may have had. A character who knows who he wants to be as a person, but is forced to mold himself differently in order to survive. Finn was the type of character that made me want to finish this story. I was invested in his fight, and I wanted him to succeed!

      Completely different, but also so interesting, was the world of Claudia and Jared. "Protocol" brought an interesting spin to their world, trapping it forever in the Victorian Era. It was fascinating watching them play through this time period over and over each day, while around them technology was ever present in odd and hidden places. That, and I adore Claudia deeply! Her stubborn, stoic and intelligent demeanor really helped drive me through confusing parts of the book. I was always anxious to see what she would do next, since Claudia gets what Claudia wants.

      Overall I think Incarceron is a fabulously written story! I admit at times it does get a bit heavy on description, and perhaps a little confusing, but in the long run the read is completely worth it. I found myself so immersed in vastly different worlds of Claudia and Finn that I was sad when the book ended. Long story short? I cannot wait for Sappique!
    • 3/5
      Incarceron, by Catherine Fisher

      For dystopian and fantasy readers, this is a good read. It's personally not my favorite genre. I read it because it is middle school battle of the books list for 2016, in order to write questions for the Watauga MSBOB County teams. I was disappointed at the ending which was left open for a sequel. I don't Plan to read the sequel, but do want to know more of what happens with Claudia and Finn.

      This is the story of a living prison and the struggle of those that live both inside and outside the prison. Finn, the main character's goal is to find freedom from the prison that he lives within. Claudia lives outside the prison but also is striving to find a way to free herself from the life that she is living. Finn and Claudia come in contact with each other through a key. She believes that he is a long lost prince from her world. The story is set in a future where advanced technology has given those in charge the ability to pick the type of era in which the people live, and focuses on the struggles that the characters face while trying to make their own path and live a life of freedom. This is called The Era.

      Finn does not have any memory of anything that happened before he was about 16 and is even unsure of his actual age. He lives in a world that is made of metal with one glowing red eye that watches your every move, and at times the prison can even punish you. He travels with a band of thieves that live by a rugged cruel code of ethics, and although Finn is willing to fight, and often kill, he possesses a kindness that sets him apart from this band of hoodlums. Finn finds himself in possession of a crystal key and at this point, his life begins to change. The key enables him the power to talk to a woman that claims to be outside the prison. In Finn's realm of thinking, no one in the prison knows how to get out and some even doubt that there is a way to get out.

      Claudia is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron. She fears her father in many ways but is willing to defy him in order to save herself from an arranged marriage with a prince. Claudia is trying to find Incarceron when she finds the strange crystal key and begins talking with Finn. After some time communicating with Finn, Claudia and Finn begin seeing each other more regularly. When Claudia sees Finn and learns that he has no memory of anything from his childhood she immediately believes he was the king's older son from a previous marriage and was sent to Incarceron because the queen wanted her own heir to be the future queen. Claudia believes Finn is her hope of escape.
    • 4/5
      Wow that was an amazing adventure. This book kept me on my toes constantly guessing at what would happen to the characters but sometimes it became fairly predictable. The way they desperately searched for a way out seemed so real. And where Incarceron was hidden was in a place I would least expect it to be. All in all a good book.
    • 2/5
      It may have been my bad mood, but somehow, this one drove me a little more batty. I can't quite put my finger on it - too contrived? too weird? (that's usually not a problem for me) Oh well.
    • 2/5
      Giving up on this one. The worldbuilding was good but ultimately not enough to carry me through, and I felt simultaneously like I was too aware of the author being in love with her idea and like I knew exactly where the story was going. Conversely, the characters were difficult to get a grasp on, which I imagine was due to a truly inordinate amount of telling without showing in every respect. Sometimes the characters would even tell who they were in their dialogue, which was terribly awkward to read; in fact, a lot of exposition was given through dialogue for reasons that are beyond me: this is a novel, not a movie, it could have easily gone in the narration where it belongs.

      26% read.
    • 3/5
      This was a good book. The setting is very interesting and the two story lines, while fairly simple, kept me reading right to the end.

      The biggest problem I had with the book was that it is clearly written with the intention of being the first in a series. I recognize that this is a valid strategy for books, but I like them to stand alone a bit more. This felt like it didn't have much substance beyond preparing for further books and some tweaking could easily fix that and make this a volume that stands alone but makes you want to read more.
    • 4/5
      Let me start by saying that this is not typically the type of story I read. It's a touch sci-fi in nature, which doesn't usually appeal to me. However, this book's blurb really caught my interest because I was intrigued by the idea of two people from different worlds communicating through a device. I wasn't disappointed.This was an incredibly interesting story, and Fisher's descriptions of Incarceron were so compelling that I felt like I could really invision this prison, even though the idea of some of the descriptions are so outlandish, you'd think it would be difficult to suspend disbelief. Not at all. I found myself sucked in.Claudia was such an interesting character. She was incredibly smart, resourceful, and strong. She played the part of a helpless and obedient girl, but behind the scenes when her father wasn't looking, she wasn't taking her fate lying down. With the help of her tutor, she was determined to make changes, especially after finding Finn.Finn's character was intriguing, even though, from the beginning, the reader can pretty much make some pretty good guesses as to his true origin. There was no real surprise there, at least for me. His determination to find the Outside never wavered, despite obstacles, and despite so many people telling him that his dreams and ideas about an Outside world were unfounded and ridiculous. He had to become strong in order to follow his quest for escape and discovery.I don't want to say much more or else I would be giving the plot away too much. It's one of those stories that, if you know even a little bit about one part of it, it would give away the whole story. So I'll stop there. I will just say that this was a very good book, and it contained at least two surprise twists near the end that had me utterly shocked. They were totally unexpected and were things I never would have thought of.I am looking forward to reading the second installment, Sapphique.
    • 5/5
      Incarceron was supposed to be a paradise for the prisoners who were sent there. Instead it is a scrabble for life with no way out. Claudia, the warden's daughter, lives outside and is doomed to an arranged marriage - until she finds a way to communicate with a boy inside.
    • 5/5
      This was such unique and well written book! I was hooked the entire time and struggled to put it down each time I did!
    • 3/5
      I listened to the audio book of this with my husband. It was entertaining, but feels impossible to describe.
    • 2/5
      This was the absolute wrong book to try to test out whether I can listen to audiobooks. It was so complicated that even when I read along with the audio, which usually enhances my reading experience, I was still lost and had to page through to figure out what the heck was going on, who was speaking, what had happened the last time we heard from that character. The problem was enhanced by the reader, who made half the voices sound exactly alike with grating English accents and didn't often keep with the tone the author specified. I would have scrapped it, but when I tried reading it without audio, I kept falling asleep. I just couldn't get interested. I really liked Claudia's story at the beginning, but I didn't care for how frequently the narration switched between Finn and Claudia. It was dizzying. It got even more confusing when various characters were separated from there and the narration further branched. All the twists and turns were convenient, and the world-building was so complex that it left little room for speculation apart from it drawing on a traditional plotline. I readily got into the mindset of being passive and waiting for what crazy turn Fisher would conveniently throw in, and it soon fell into the cheap sort of hook of ending every single chapter or narration switch with a cliff hanger...to the point I had to bring this around again: "Duhn-duhn-DUHHHHN!" at each switcharoo.

      Ultimately, this immediately struck me as a less compelling, more complicated version of Seraphina, or should I say, Seraphina was a more compelling, less complicated version of Incarceron. I don't doubt that there are plenty of people who didn't get as caught up in the details as I did, and who knows, had I read it under different circumstances and with more time to mull it over (it is assigned for my Teen Library Materials class, so that doesn't leave much room for taking one's time), I would have liked it better. I see most of my friends who've read it have rated it highly, so I'll just own up to missing something big on this.
    • 5/5
      And incredible adventure, a prison that lives and takes over the prisoners!! So many lives, some torn and re-built, some no longer even human. It hears all , knows all, but who is in control and what is real ? A young man finds his dreams of places of light and he yearns to see the outside, a rumored place. he and his friends risk everything to find out the truth. Twisted and dark this tale has some of the best world building i have ever read. What I found most amazing was the originality of the story, utterly fantastic.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book a lot. It wasn't the best book ever but it was entertaining. I also have to give the author a lot of credit for creativity. Although the book had most all of the usual fantasy tropes, this book was creative - probably one of the most unique settings I've come across in a long time.
    • 5/5
      I could not stop reading this book. The science fiction/technology parts had me completely confused, but I loved the story.
    • 4/5
      I've been wanting to read this book for awhile - so when I came across it in a thrift store, I picked it up.Its a good book. Interesting, but flawed characters. An interesting world. However - it is rather predictable and if you think too hard about it, it doesn't make sense.This book is set in the future in a world where it has been decreed that the population will go back to a simpler time (in this case 1850's or so) and than become stagnant. At the same time, it was decided that worst half of the population will be sent to "Incarceration" which will be a grand experiment into making things better. Unfortunately, this didn't work as planned. Its been a few generations later, and Incarceration has devolved into a brutal place, with the Warden reporting back to the remaining population that the experiment is working wonderfully.This is story about a boy has amnesia and is in Incarceration who finds a key that allows him to talk to a person on the outside. Its a good book, well written, with interesting characters. But at times, its derivative, and it follows a standard path.
    • 4/5
      I had absolutely no desire to read this book. I am being honest here. I only read it because it was a Blog With Bite pick for the month, so...in effort to expand my horizons...I took a look. I was pleasantly surprised and happy I did pick it up.

      The characters in this tale are intense, very unique, and just amazing. I love the spirit that both Finn and Claudia have and the sense of adventure that I feel when I read about them. Among the character the plot and actual setting are just as fascinating. The prison seriously creeps me out but who wouldn't be creeped out...it is a weird yet intriguing world that you can't help but keep reading about.

      The plot was interesting but I pretty much guessed some of the major plot points in this book in the beginning, which is fine but it was a tad predictable in some aspects, not all mind you, I was surprised quite a few times while reading. This a pretty good tale but definitely not a bedtime story.
    • 4/5
      All right, I'll be honest, I'm kind of obsessed with this book. Now, granted, it took me way longer to read than it should have (I started it during school and then got distracted by other things when school let out...) but now that I've finished it I can easily say that this is the YA book that's replacing The Hunger Games for me (sorry... but... you know how I felt about Mockingjay)
      This book is both sci-fi and steampunk at the same time. Hold on and let that settle. Yeah, it's basically fantastic.
      The story follows two worlds, the Outside, and inside Incarceron. Incarceron is a giant prison created by a group known as the Sapienti (oh, I am quite certain that that is probably spelled wrong...) a group that are a little like wizards except with technology. Kind of like that. The prison was meant to be a utopia, a perfect world for these people to start over, but somewhere the technology went wrong. Of course, one of the catches was the the prison itself was alive. Which is supremely creepy I'll have you know.
      Inside Incarceron the story follows Finn, a young boy born inside the prison. Finn is a starseer, he dreams of the stars of the Outside. The only other starseer was a man named Sapphique, the one man who has ever escaped Incarceron.
      Outside, the story follows Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron. She is engaged to be married to the prince of the realm who is basically a terrible person who is absolutely dull and boring. The Outside realm is held underneath Protocol, which requires everyone to dress and act like that of people in Victorian England. So, the realm is set back in time when in reality it's technologies are quite advanced. Along with Jared, her Sapient tutor, Claudia steals a key that allows her to speak with the coinciding key that is inside Incarceron. The key that Finn holds.
      The plot takes twists and turns that I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting. Actually by the end no character was acting like i was expecting to do and i was quite shocked by the turns the story took. At times the writing left some to be desired. There were times while inside Incarceron that I could never accurately picture the setting. It always seemed like they were just talking in the dark. Aside from that, though, I loved how this was written. I loved the steampunk elements that were weaved throughout the entire book- through 'Protocol' and an airship that the team in Incarceron steals. This was actually one of the most interesting steampunk YA books i've read yet. The story drops off in a rather abrupt cliff hanger, however, so i must quickly get my hands on the sequel.
      Basically, this book incorporated all my favourite elements in one with a great cast of characters. There were a few characters I was not fond of, but i was a huge fan of Jared and Keiro, they were by far the best.
    • 4/5
      I love this concept of a living, moving prison. It gives the writer the ability to create worlds within worlds, and the hidden location that seems revealed at the end is very cool. Having the two main characters meet through speaking to each other through their respective keys was a very unique addition with adding in the forgotten history as well. The story is compelling and unique, and the characters are like able and intriguing.

      My only draw back is that for the prisoner, he seems naive and not a leader, even though his role is primarily that or at least should be more so. The counterpart to him is the girl, and she seems a little self involved to be cast in such a good light. Other than that, I loved it and will be getting the next one to read soon.
    • 3/5
      The world drives this story. Discovering the facets of the world inside Incarceron and its relation to the Outside is what pushes the plot forward.

      The characters are interesting, but not fully fleshed out.
      There were some plot twists, but some were also expected.

      I think overall, the story just didn't push the scifi of the story enough. It tried to set the Outside world in a timeless era, where Time has stopped. It tried to set Incarceron as living prison that gorges upon itself. But it doesn't go far enough. It is still too common, still too natural. I believe a lot of it stems from the diction that the author chooses. If she had chosen more obscure words, more words that were twisted from time and age, then I would not feel like this world is just a caricature of our world rather than a new one completely.

      Three and a half stars rounded down because it is an engaging, interesting book that I have not seen the likes before in all my scifi readings. Rounded down because it just doesn't have the wow factor to push it to a four star. It was good, just not amazing. Recommended for people who like new worlds.
    • 4/5
      I love this concept of a living, moving prison. It gives the writer the ability to create worlds within worlds, and the hidden location that seems revealed at the end is very cool. Having the two main characters meet through speaking to each other through their respective keys was a very unique addition with adding in the forgotten history as well. The story is compelling and unique, and the characters are like able and intriguing.

      My only draw back is that for the prisoner, he seems naive and not a leader, even though his role is primarily that or at least should be more so. The counterpart to him is the girl, and she seems a little self involved to be cast in such a good light. Other than that, I loved it and will be getting the next one to read soon.
    • 3/5
      Interesting twist on a world within a world. Took a bit to get into and figure out what was going on, but picked up later on.
    • 4/5
      It took me a little while to get into this novel, but it proved well worth the effort. Set in a futuristic world, society has been divided into two parts - one that lives on the Outside and is bound by Protocol, which keeps society stagnant in 18th-century like conditions, and one imprisoned in Incarceron, a place originally intended as an utopian experiment but that failed to become a harsh, violent world. Through the use of a rare set of keys, Claudia, a young woman from the Outside who is destined for an arranged marriage, and Finn, an young inmate of Incarceron, are able to communicate and they embark on a plan to escape both of their prisons. I enjoyed this novel more the further I read, and I'm hoping to read the sequel soon.
    • 3/5
      Initially, it can be very confusing. However, it did sweep me up into the story, and I finished it as quickly as I could. Good pick for anyone who enjoys YA fantasy or YA dystopian.
    • 4/5
      Opening line: “Finn had been flung on his face and chained to the stone slabs of the transitway.”

      There is a prison called Incarceron which no one ever enters or leaves. But within that prison Finn can remember seeing stars. On the outside, Claudia, the daughter of Incarceron’s Warden, struggles in a world which has encased itself in the past.

      This is a delicious book. Oh, it’s got some dark and gritty substance to it (insert me trying to think of a good food metaphor here and failing), but as a whole it’s delicious.

      In a way, it felt like a fairy tale, although it isn’t. I think that’s partly because of all of the titles in the book: The Warden, The Queen. Even Sapphique was a title as well as a name. At the same time, it’s a bit more nuanced than most fairy tales. The Warden in particular is one of the more enigmatic characters I’ve read about recently and I can’t wait to learn more about him.

      I liked Claudia a lot. She falls into one of my favorite groups of heroines–the kind that is spunky and courageous without being ridiculous. I do get a little tired of the arranged marriage trope, but here I was willing to go along with it. I’m not quite sure what to make of Finn. In fact, I’m not quite sure what to make of most of the characters. Jared seems pretty uniformly good, until you get to the very end. Keiro? I just don’t know.

      So, I can’t wait for the sequel, which will hopefully pin down the characters a little more. Besides which, I found the world that Fisher created fascinating, so I’m excited to return to it.

      Book source: public library
      Book information: Dial, 2010 (US edition); grade 7 up
    • 3/5
      This was definitely a book that was different than the book I read. I will read the next one to see what happens. All in all it was a good book
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this! In a way, it reminded me of one of my favorite MG books, The City of Ember, in the way that the lights were on and off at a certain time and that it was a darker world. But it was also completely and utterly different.

      When I started it, I wasn't immediately drawn in but I found the alternating viewpoints between Finn, who lives inside Incarceron but believes he's from Outside, and Claudia, who lives outside and is doomed for a life at Court with the coniving Casper, to be really interesting. One inside, one outside. Unlike many books I've read, I didn't know entirely what this was about and so I followed the book with more interest.

      I loved Finn's POV from inside the Prison. It was dark and scary and Incarceron creeped me out entirely. Finn was also a lot different from the other immates and you could definitely tell. From page one, you're yanked into the story and tossed into the action. Fisher wastes no time filling you up with details; you get those throughout the book.

      Claudia annoyed me at times, but I did love her. She does come off as a sort of brat, a spoiled princess, but it's usually at distressing times. There are lots of twists in this book that just make your jaw drop; some you can see coming but I personally didn't see a couple of them coming. I could hardly put it down! I spent most of the day reading it and only put it down because I had chores to do. Easly, one of my favorite book. I can't wait for Sapphique!
    • 4/5
      Well, I just can't decide if I loved this, was confused by it, annoyed that I will have to wait a year to read the sequel... I have been thinking about it quite a bit for the last few days, so it obviously made an impact. I guess that means I liked it. 4 stars it is!
    • 3/5
      interesting book with an interesting story. Wish characters had been a little more likeable, but otherwise good.
    • 3/5
      2.5, so rounding up to a 3.

      The worldbuilding is interesting and Incarceron is fascinating, but overall needed a little more. I haven't developed any particular attachment or feelings towards any of the characters by the end which is troubling; if I'm indifferent to the cast & crew, why would I bother to pick up the second?
    • 5/5
      Terrific start to the series. Great world building and characters. Looking forward to #2.