Incarceron. A novel by Catherine Fisher set in a dystopian future, and told from two different perspectives. The tag line of the novel is, "INCARCERON. A prison like no other. It gives life. It deals death. It watches all." In the book, a teenage boy named Finn is trapped inside of Incarceron, a vast, living prison that controls the people within it so well, most don't actually believe in Outside. They have only the Legends of Sapphique, the only man ever fabled to have escaped Incarceron. Outside, there is a teenage girl names Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron. Only the Warden knows what goes on inside the prison. And Outside, everything has been reverted to the Middle Ages. Years ago, a king decided that technology was a menace, and shut everything down. They now live in a Dark Age, with royals, peasants, beheadings, and much, much worse. Claudia is destined to marry the heir to the throne. There is only one problem. She doesn't love Caspar, who is a whiny, obnoxious shell of a boy, ultimately controlled by his mother, the Queen. When Finn and Claudia make contact through the most unlikely circumstances, they band together to help one another. Both to escape a different kind of prison. Can they free themselves-and each other-before it's too late?
Monday, January 19, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
http://youtu.be/GHlwRsl2uFk <---- Watch the trailer!
City of Bones is the first installment in The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. It is preluded by it's first companion series, The Infernal Devices. City of Bones follows the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Clary Fray, who lives in an old brownstone in the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City. She's quite a normal girl. Until, one day when she and her friend Simon Lewis are in Pandemonium, an all-ages club that Clary and he frequent. Something quite horrifying happens: Clary sees three teenagers murder a blue-haired boy. Then, the blue-haired boy disappears. Shaken, Clary returns home. The next day, one of the teenagers, a handsome blonde boy named Jace, visits Clary again. At this time, her mother calls her and tells her not to come home. The call ends abruptly. Her mother has been kidnapped. Clary returns home, and promptly attacked by a Ravener demon. They eat humans, and look similar to the lizard mutts in Mockingjay. Clary discovers she is a member of the Shadow World, and more specifically, a nephilim. They are the descendants of humans and angels, guardians of the mortal world. They kill demons and rogue Downworlders, which include fey, werewolves, vampires, warlocks, etc. Clary must go on a quest with these Shadowhunters to save her mother. And more specifically, the world.
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