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 of Incarceron -- I love the idea of the "Era" and the character interaction there was strong and direct -- but whenever the story shifted to Finn, my attention flagged. Not a good thing, I suppose, for a book focusing on the inhabitants of the living prison. Great concepts individually but, put together, they didn't mix as well as I'd hoped.