I know many of you are staring at my two star review with amazement. I imagine you're thinking, "Cory, how could you?! This is one of the greatest steam-punk novels ever written! How can you rate it without even finishing it?"

To that, I have a simple answer: I wasn't impressed.

This book, like many fantasy novels I've ignored for the past few years, follows the Hero's Journey like a bible.

Of course we have a mystery revolving around the hero's past. Of course the hero has to be of royal blood bec More...

I found it difficult to enjoy Incarceron at first.

You know that saying, Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it? Ya, this is Incarceron all over.

So there's two worlds in this one story. There's the "real" world and the Incarceron world.

The real world is a futuristic world with fantastical technologies - which are not used much because the King of that world decided that change was bad, progress - demeaning and invention - unsafe. So he reverted the whole world to a pre-regenc More...

Where to begin? I just loved this book so much. Reading it was like drinking a white chocolate mocha, oh so delicious.

Maybe I'm really weird, but I've always thought prisons were kind of...cool. Not the modern day kind, but the medieval types. Strange, maybe, but I just find dungeons really interesting. ANYWAY, Incarceron is the ULTIMATE prison. It's alive, and it has a perosonality, which is just so unbelievably awesome.

I must admit, the twists were very predictable, but I didn't mind, becaus More...

I finished this book last night but waited till this morning to review it. Had I not, I suspect that the review would have been a bit more...vitriolic.

I've run on several mediocre YA novels recently and that not only disappoints me, but gives me pause. maybe I'm getting harder to please?

Having just gone through the Percy Jackson series and found it disappointing and reading a book by Tamora Pierce which I found mostly stultifyingly dull, I was rooting for this one. Unfortunately it just didn't w More...

I love this book with a mad passion. I could hardly even tell you why, except that the concept of the living and sentient prison that's a whole world in itself is amazing, and the blend of the fantastical/fairy tale/historical and the high-tech aspects of Claudia's world fascinated me, and the Warden reminds me of Jack Bristow from Alias with his grim aspect and habit of keeping dark secrets mingled with a fierce (if sometimes oddly expressed) love of his daughter, and Jared is GUH and Jared/Cla More...

If Incarceron was a school subject, it would definitely be science. I love science, I find it fascinating, but I’m not very good at it… kind of like this reading experience!
First of all, this book is fascinating, captivating, the type of story that sticks with you to the point that you’re forgetting everything else you have to do because you’re so obsessed over what happens next! But, on the other hand, it’s really confusing, and to be honest, I had a hard time digesting all the intricacies of More...

Disclaimer: It was hard to convey my overall views on this book. I feel like this review is very much a 'I can't put my fingers on what was wrong' type of review, so I apologize if it seems rather chaotic.

Incarceron is a book with some interesting ideas, and some intensely visual imagery. Catherine Fisher put some imagination into crafting this story, and I tip my hat to the author for that. However, my overall feeling after finishing it is disappointment. Unfortunately, there were aspects that More...

Reviewed by Amber Gibson for TeensReadToo.com

Above all, Time is forbidden. From now on nothing will change.

After the Years of Rage, King Endor's Decree bans progress, pausing the world in an old-fashioned era of medieval dress and travel by horse-drawn carriage. Though advanced technology exists, it is expressly forbidden, and everyone must abide to Protocol.

Incarceron is an exception to this rule. A prison that some are born into and that nobody ever escapes, Incarceron is not a building, but a More...

Selesai baca ini, saia speechless.

Tapi ini bukan jenis speechless "ZOMG its So COoLZ LIke Tah Best ThinG EVAARRRR!!!" yang saia harapkan. Ini lebih seperti jenis speechless yang, "Idenya keren banget... tapi kok ide sekeren itu cuma jadi kayak... gini? O_O

Betapa saia benci jika ide yang seharusnya pure awesome dieksekusi menjadi sesuatu yang gak awesome.

Bayangin deh. Idenya tentang sebuah penjara yang hidup, yang merupakan dunia/ekosistem tersendiri. Gilanya lagi, ekosistem penjara ini punya kes More...

Original Review HERE

Incarceron is a vast, encompassing prison. Instead of steel bars and cell blocks, however, Incarceron is a world in itself; it is a metal world where nothing is created nor wasted, where stars and sky are near forgotten fairy tales, where all live in a cutthroat world, fighting for food and survival. Even more than that, Incarceron is alive – it observes everything that goes on within its walls, it’s red seeing eye omnipresent to the mortals within. Incarceron is all they hav More...

I wish I could give half-stars, because this is really 3 1/2.

I thought the ideas in this book were rich and innovative, and the plot twists near the end were what made me round the rating up to 4 stars instead of rounding down. I definitely want to read the sequel to find out where this story goes. (Update: I recently moved my rating down to 3 stars because as time has gone by I stopped caring about reading the sequel! Just didn't resonate with me, I guess.)

The big negative for me was that this More...

About half way through this, I wasn't sure I was going to care enough to want to read the sequel. But the closer I got to the end, the more caught up in the story I became. Some of the things that bothered me in the beginning were either resolved or the story moved away from those parts of the plot.

In the beginning, I felt like I didn't have a firm grasp on what was going on or how the societies inside Incarceron really worked. Details were given, but not enough to make me feel like I had a fir More...

Aqui está um livro que é diferente dos que tenho lido.

Não consigo definir muito bem o seu género literário, mas penso que entre a Fantasia, Aventura e assim um bocado de FC (a mostrar uma parte Steampunk, que está muito interessante!).

Gostei muito! Gostei do enredo, do facto de ser dinâmico, não enrola e é direto. Mas continua sempre a deixar os seus mistérios por desvendar! Ou seja, é um argumento direto sem contar tudo. Interessante!

Quanto às personagens...
Bem, achei-as interessantes, princip More...

*makasih Memooo....*


Pure fantasi
maksudnya bacanya bener-bener sambil berfantasi
susah looh, kalo ngebayangin dunia Luar mah gampang
dunia Dalam ituh.. hueee mana dunianya muram lagi

jadi ceritanya Incarceron itu penjara - tapi karena distopia, penjaranya 'canggih' dong
canggihnya apa? yah udah kaya' dunia sendiri aja.. mulai dari kaum terpelajar sampai kaum preman pun ada
ga kebayang deh luasnya kaya apa tuh penjara..

ada penjara, ada luar penjara tentunya kan
lah dunia di luar kok kaya jaman2 cerita More...

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, but I have always been into reading fairytales and although they don't live happily ever after, this book reads like a fairytale. It's a very imaginative, original and engrossing story that is vividly written with great characters. It has action and suspense, but no romance (thank God, no love-triangle!).I loved every second of it and although I didn't want to rush through it and enjoy it to the fullest, I couldn't put it down until I reached the last page. It' More...

How sad is it that I am actually surprised to see a book utilize character development? After reading so many terrible books (House of Night, Fallen, Shiver and anything with Ever Bloom) any book that manages to have it's characters evolve immediately attracts my attention. That book is called Incarceron by Catherine Fisher, who is going to be one of my favorite writers if she keeps this wrong. It's a fantasy book that has...ACTUAL FANTASY!

*Squee*

-Ahem-

So my review.

Incarceron is living prison More...

I'd give it ten stars if I could !

This book is just marvelous, devine and so skillfully written.
It is without a doubt one of the best book I've read this year,
and perhaps for a while.
It tastes like cream chocolate dipped roast chicken at first and framboise filled dark chocolate at the end. As you might have guessed, it is very dark and fattening but sinfully delicious.
I tend to guess well at what's going to happen next when reading a book, but this was so out of my reach, it gave me goosebu More...

You can read more reviews at my blog, The Armchair Librarian.

Have you ever read a book with an idea so simplistic, and yet so fundamentally awesome, that you marvel at the fact that nobody came up with it before? That is exactly how I feel about Incarceron.

I mean, come on! It is about a prison that is self-aware and constantly changing: an ouroboros with a wicked sense of humor and an even wickeder sense of self-preservation. Escape is not on its agenda for its prisoners. Ever. Why? Because it e More...

The prison Incarceron reminds me a lot of HAL, the space ship's board computer of Kubrick's "Space Odyssey": Both are fitted out with artificial intelligence and go rogue.

Incarceron takes place in the future. 160 years ago a king decided that cutting off mankind from its strive after one technological improvement after the next would end greed, war and the slow crumbling of society. So he forbid time and progress and switched everything back to an era long passed: An age, when people traveled o More...

Yaaaay kereeeen....


Sebagai pembaca saya sih suka ;D
Sebagai penerjemahnya saya lebih suka. ;D *plaaaak*


Dunia futuristik bercampur kehidupan lampau. Atau sebaliknya ya?

Finn hidup di dunia Penjara yang isinya mesin dan makhluk-makhluk aneh. Pengen banget keluar dari sana dan nikmati dunia luar.
Claudia hidup di dunia luar yang indah nan megah namun terbentur peraturan protokol. Bayangin aja dia hidup di zaman canggih tapi tinggalnya di kastil. Pake pakaian zaman victoria. Dan dia pengen banget masuk More...

Debo admitir que realmente me gusto este libro, era diferente a cualquier otro libro que haya leído, no es la típica historia de amor prohibido o la de criaturas ficticias, esto es completamente diferente, es una historia de aventura. Incarceron esta viva y lo ve todo, tienen que tratar de escapar de allí, pero por otra parte en el Exterior no es muy diferente de los que viven encerrados en la prisión, ya que las personas tienen que obligarse entre si a vivir una época que no evoluciona, que nun More...

I found the plot of Incarceron a little predictable and the action a little flagging--until the last seven chapters, which almost made up for the earlier parts of the book. The main idea--of a 150-year-old grand experiment in penal reform with the creation of a self-sustaining and essentially completely isolated prison world that goes horribly wrong--is an intriguing one, and Fisher runs with it. There are several ways for a book to become memorable to me. One is to have an intellectually stimul More...

Lit. class review:

The main reason I’m reading this is at recommendation (yet again) of my friend Kelly, who continues to recommend books that I love. If her word isn’t reason enough, it’s also been recognized by the School Library Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, the Cybil awards, and is one of Booklist’s top 10 fantasy/sci-fi for 2010.

It’s another addition to the ever-expanding list of dystopic YAL titles. The main character appears to live within a prison unlike any sort of prison we know. Accord More...

Aaargh. I need to start reading stand alone novels, because the wait for all these sequels is killing me. And now I have another one to add to the list.

This one grabbed me hard from page one and so there I sat, all day, at the Book Shop, ignoring the display I should have been putting together (though I did get it done!) as I plowed through. I love that Fisher just drops the reader into this wildly different world, and expects you to keep up and piece together the details of her characters' real More...

Listened to this one on audio with Kim Mai Guest as a reader. Her straight narration is strong, but her faux-British accents for dialogue are distracting and sometimes annoying.

I liked the book enough to finish it in a single week, but I doubt I'll go on to the sequels anytime soon. This is a book I really should like -- it has so many of the elements I ordinarily enjoy -- but it just seemed overstuffed with characters and prophecies.

My favorite scenes were with Claudia when she lived outside More...

wow...this is one of those books that is tough to read because of multiple story lines, and also because I am still not quite sure what is going on. But it's one of those books that I can't stop thinking about. The characters are fabulous, and strong, and resourceful, and evil. Incarceron is a prison that started out as an experiment and has now grown into something much more that Finn is trying to escape. He knows he wasn't born in Incarceron, but can't remember about his early years. Claudia i More...

This gritty, intriguing dystopia's mysteries had me giddy with suspense. I loved the juxtaposition of high technology--its staggering potential as a freedom and a menace--and the stifling control of archaic, formal pre-industrial society. I won't even get into the plot--discovering it slowly is part of the fun.

I was tickled to find that throughout, the story brought specific, nostalgic images to my mind from our collective fantasy-world consciousness: Mad Max, The Wizard of Oz, a bit of 2001: A More...

Incarceron- an infinite prison created to hold the criminals, the unwanted and the refuse. It was supposed to be a place to rehabilitate those imprisoned there, a paradise… but something went wrong. Now those trapped inside live in hell and the prison has become something altogether new- a horrible living organism.

Claudia is the daughter of the warden of Incarceron. She senses that something is not quite right about her world. A prisoner in her own right, she is being groomed to be the next quee More...

Please be warned that there will be slight spoilers in this review.

It was not easy to follow at first. Fisher does not take you by the hand and walk you through her world, so it does take a while before you understand the sentient, ever-evolving world that is Incarceron. I admit most of my ratings go for the idea behind this novel, rather than its execution.
The sheer thought of being born inside a continuously changing, expansive prison-world; of being trapped in a dimension that accomodates it More...

Incarceron è una prigione futuristica in grado di pensare, osservare, agire. Questa era stata creata con l’intenzione di creare un mondo perfetto, ma in realtà l’unico risultato fu una prigione che non può essere controllata e che non obbedisce a nessuno, in cui vivono assassini, ladri, criminali di ogni genere. Qui vive Finn, un ragazzo figlio di Incarceron che non ricorda nulla della propria vita tranne gli ultimi tre anni, un ragazzo che ha delle visioni che fanno credere sia l’erede di Sapph More...