Review: Sapphique

Title: SapphiqueSeries: Incarceron # 2Genre: Young Adult- DystopianAuthor: Catherine FisherPublisher: DialRelease Date: December 28, 2010Book: Bought “Finn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of Incarceron, but its memory torments him, because his brother Keiro is still inside. Outside, Claudia insists he must be king, but Finn doubts even his own identity. Is he the lost prince Giles? Or are his memories no more than another construct of his imprisonment? And can you be free if your friends are still captive? Can you be free if your world is frozen in time? Can you be free if you don’t even know who you are? Inside Incarceron, has the crazy sorcerer Rix really found the Glove of Sapphique, the only man the Prison ever loved. Sapphique, whose...

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Review: Incarceron

Title: IncarceronSeries: Incarceron #1Genre: Young Adult- FantasyAuthor: Catherine FisherPublisher: Hodder Children’s BooksRelease Date: May 3, 2007Book: Bought “Incarceron — a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. 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. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of...

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