Like I said, just the premise would have made for a terrifying book, but what distinguishes it from other horror stories and YA books is that the author has a knack for writing relatable characters. Those taken never come back, or if they do, they are changed. Oh, and things worst then guards prowl the halls at night, and sometimes they take prisoners. Now add to that the cruelty of the guards and their indifference to the violence happening between inmates. No wonder they form gangs and lash out against each other – they are all desperate and, frankly, they don’t have anything to loose anymore. So the children stuck in Furnace have no hope, and no future. What should have happened to society for the public to think that a prison like that was normal or even welcome? What happened that parents would agree to something like that? That human right activists aren’t up in arms and railing against this? As far as humanity is concerned, the prisoners cease to be human and become property as soon as they cross the gates into Furnace. With no possibility of appeal and parole. Imagine locking away children, since some of them are barely 10 years old. The premise itself is terrifying in its inhumanity. Of course there will be acts of extreme cruelty involved. They are teenage boys trapped in a nightmare and left to fend for themselves. Are they good people? Not by a long stretch, but neither are they bad people. The author has a knack for writing reliable characters that feel real. Fast-paced and full of shocks and terrors, Lockdown is the incredible first book in Alexander Gordon Smith's Escape from Furnace series.My problem with a lot of horror books is that the characters in them are either not fully realized or so unpleasant that sometimes you wish the monsters got them, so it’s hard to root for them.
The more he discovers, the more he understands that he is going to have to do whatever it takes to expose this nightmare hidden from the eyes of the world. But it's not just about saving his own skin. The prison is a place of pure evil, where inhuman creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood-drenched tunnels below.
Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries.
Alex Sawyer is the "new fish." Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, he knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to death in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Furnace Penitentiary is the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface.
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