Incarceron

Simply amazing..... that's my impression of this fantasy novel "Incarceron" by Catherine Fisher. The cover is dark and mysterious and you just know the book is going to be too.

You meet two characters in two different worlds.... Finn is a young man trapped in an underground world, a prison within a prison.... in a hierarchy of degenerates out for themselves, his only friend Keiro, his oathbrother who looks out for him.

Claudia is a young woman, the entitled and privileged daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, the prison, who is slated to marry, against her will, the next king of the kingdom where time has stood still for hundreds of years, where technology has no place unless it is to keep things as they once were.

Does this sound too confusing? As the plot falls into place you see and feel the desperation of those who are trying to escape both prisons and see how they find the key to communicate.

I am off the buy the sequel, Sapphique, tomorrow.