Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (reviewed by Bear Schacht)

A prison like no other........

Long ago Incarceron was built, and many prisoners were placed inside. It was intended to create a perfect society, but something went terribly wrong. On the inside, everything is in chaos. The strong rule the weak, and the living prison does nothing but observe. On the outside time has been outlawed, and everyone is forced to live in a past era, and most of them have no idea what is going on inside.

Claudia is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron. Finn is inside, but has vague memories of the outside.

Both struggle in their different worlds, until they both find mysterious crystal keys with which they can communicate. Claudia finds her way into incarceron, and they try to escape back out, something that has been done only once before. Trouble is, that's against the rules. The prison was designed to keep people in, and it does not want them to leave.

A gripping and complex story, masterfully told with plenty of suspense and plot twists, a must-read for any steampunk fan.

(and then, at the end, with the thing, and it's like...... SOOOO awesome!)

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