2020-02-17

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2020-02-17 08:34 pm

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Incarceron

3/5. YA about a boy trapped inside a vast sentient scifi prison, and the daughter of the warden living on the outside, and what happens when they find a way to communicate.

Diverting but clumsy. There's some nice atmosphere here, but the twists are signaled with such thudding obviousness that it verges on the insulting. I don't know if this is just how Fisher writes, or if she thinks that's what you need to do in YA. Either way, I figured out the three largest reveals in the first 15%.