Sapphique & Incarceron -Catherine Fisher

INCARCERON & SAPPHIQUE

Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible.

And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl named Claudia. She claims to live Outside- she is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, and doomed to an arranged marriage. Finn is determined to escape the prison, and Claudia believes she can help him. But they don't realize that there is more to Incarceron than meets the eye. Escape will take their greatest courage and cost more than they know.

İncarceron Reviews

"Fisher's dystopic future...is brilliantly realized."

-The Horn Book, starred review

"This is a must have."

-Booklist, starred review

"A resounding success..."

-Publisher's Weekly, starred review

"A tour de force." 

-School Library Journal, starred review

"One of the best fantasy novels written for a long time." 

-The Times, London

"Catherine Fisher [is] one of today's best fantasy writers."

-The Independent

"…a thriller of the highest order; Fisher could give the show "24" a run for its money with her twists and messed up characters. I read one chapter and putting it down took a serious act of will." 

-Junot Diaz quoted in the Wall Street Journal

"…nothing, including the final scene, is as it seems in this eerie, elegant fantasy… Intricately plotted and richly imagined, this novel holds the attention as inexorably as Incarceron holds its prisoners. The surprise ending will leave readers clamoring for the sequel coming in December." 

-The Washington Post

The only one who escaped…and the one who could destroy them all.

Incarceron, the living prison, has lost one of its inmates to the outside world: Finn's escaped, only to find that Outside is not at all what he expected. Used to the technologically advanced, if violently harsh, conditions of the prison, Finn is now forced to obey the rules of Protocol, which require all people to live without technology. To Finn, Outside is just a prison of another kind, especially when Claudia, the daughter of the prison's warden, declares Finn the lost heir to the throne. When another claimant emerges, both Finn's and Claudia's very lives hang on Finn convincing the Court of something that even he doesn't fully believe. 

Meanwhile, Finn's oathbrother Keiro, and his friend Attia, are still trapped inside Incarceron. They are searching for a magical glove, which legend says Sapphique used to escape. To find it, they must battle the prison itself, because Incarceron needs the glove too. 

Sapphique 

Reviews 

"Fisher concludes her high-intensity, mind-bending duology in this sequel to Incarceron. She further explores themes of reality, illusion, and freedom without losing her intensely original world-building and authentic characters. The bittersweet conclusion fits perfectly..." 

-Booklist, starred review

"Fisher further explores themes of reality, illusion, and freedom without losing her intensely original world-building and authentic characters."

-Booklist, Starred Review

"In this dark, brilliant sequel to Incarceron (2010), worlds within worlds collide to mutual destruction—or, maybe, rebirth…. [A] modern masterpiece."

-Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"Readers will be left breathless hoping for another installment to explore the repercussions brought on by everything that happens in Sapphique's final chapters."

-School Library Journal

"Like a master builder constructing a monumental edifice, Fisher lays and levels each narrative block with care, alternating events inside the steampunk-style prison with those in the lushly textured outside society that has chained itself to an unchanging seventeenth-century Era . . . the plot builds to an inexorable climax-a fitting finial on Fisher's grand invention."

-The Horn Book Review

"As in the previous book, Fisher's superb world-building marks this title, effectively drawing the reader in to a place so rife with secrets even its inhabitants don't entirely understand the depth of its illusions. . . The stunning ending, however, with its allusions to an ultimate savior and a defunct reality, seamlessly integrates the book's more cerebral elements with a heady dose of action adventure."

-BCCB