Incarceron: Very Interesting Book

In Incarceron the plot follows the life of one who lives within the prison and the struggles that come with living in Incarceron.  Incarceron is not a typical prison that one would think of today.  This prison is like its own world, containing run down cities and wilderness.  What is makes this prison even more different than prisons today is that it's alive.  With these circumstances escape seems impossible to any inhabitant of Incarceron except for one.  This character is Finn who awakes within the prison with no recollection of the past and thinks he comes from Outside.  He is utterly determined to escape this hell he lives in even with the little evidence that escape is possible.

The prison's back story is it was originally designed by scientists with the intent for it to hold a thousand people.  This prison was meant to be a utopia, but became the exact opposite.  This prison originally designed to be peaceful takes pleasure in death and destruction.  When it was made it was sealed so that there couldn't be any escape.  An interesting aspect of the prison was that animal are bionic.  The prison was unable to produce flesh for these animals.  Every living cell is recycled by the prison and nothing is wasted.  The trees are no longer wood but made of silver and the apples grown on the trees are made of gold.  The reason this prison became this way is that it began to gain intelligence and outsmarted the scientists that created it.

This book had a very unique setting that I would've never imagined.  This was what gave it most of its appeal.  A prison is usually seen as a confined area, which Incarceron was, but Incarceron defied the definition by making it seem as it was its own world with its own unique characteristics that made it seem otherworldly.  As the characters struggled to find an escape it made you wonder if Incarceron truly was its own unescapable world which made the read even more intense.