Lockdown+Escape+from+Furnace



Title of Book: LOCKDOWN ESCAPE FROM FURNACE

Name of Author: Alexander Gordon Smith

Copyright Year: 2009

Length of Book: 273 Pages

Genre of Book: Thriller

Synopsis of Book: Furnace Penitentiary: An underground hellhole. A place of pure evil with walls soaked in blood. Murderous Gangs and vicious Guards rule the darkness. Horrific Creatures steal people away in the dead of night.

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__Student Review Section__

This book is about: A boy named Alex who is a thief. He robs houses. One night they robbed the wrong house. He was framed for the murder of his friend. Now he is supposed to serve a life sentence in Furnace prison. A impossible prison to escape. Now his only hope is escape.

My favorite character in this book is Alex because: He is smarter then the rest of the prison. He never gives up hope. He has the courage to do things no one else dares to do. He is the only person who is brave enough to attempt to escape.

I liked / didn't like this book because: I liked the book because during every part of the book it was action packed.

You should / should not read this book because: You should read this book. It holds your interest on every page.

Book talk of this book: Alex Sawyer is a juvenile delinquent and gets joy from breaking into houses and stealing valuables with his friend Toby. One night it goes horribly wrong. Mysterious men with gas masks and completely dressed in black, referred to as 'blacksuits', show up at the house as they are robbing it and kill Toby, framing Alex for his murder. Alex is sent to Furnace Penitentiary, a prison for child offenders owned by Alfred Furnace. Arriving at Furnace Alex soon discovers it is nothing like a normal prison. A huge underground complex with only one elevator to get in or out, Furnace is run by the demonic Warden Cross and guarded by the frighteningly powerful and cruel blacksuits. The other inmates are just as bad- gangs such as the Skulls and the Fifty-Niners run the yard using fear and intimidation. Alex luckily finds allies; the small and wiry Zee, another new boy he met while entering Furnace, and the strong, street-smart Carl Donovan (referred to simply as Donovan), a veteran inmate who was one of the first to be put into Furnace since it opened. As time passes, Alex witnesses impossible events that make Furnace seem more like Hell. During the night monstrous creatures known as 'wheezers' wander the prison and take inmates with help from the guards from their cells, never to be seen again. When the inmates cause trouble a lock down occurs; inmates have a short amount of time to return to their cells before they are locked and hellish, dog-like experiments are set loose to massacre the boys who don't make it in time. Alex is determined to escape from Furnace before such a fate befalls him; a feat that has never been accomplished before, he hears from Donovan that in a room that a cave in took place named room 2 that can hold a route to freedom he ventures in room 2 to find a crack that leads to a underground river but too small for his friends to fit and go into a state of depression until he finds out that he can blow the crack bigger by smuggling out propane gas filled gloves out of the kitchen during hard labor, during his time he finds new allies such a Toby merchant, a boy that first entered furnace as a "new fish" that reminds him of his old friend with the same name that Alex saves from attempted suicide with another new inmate, Gary Owen, a psychopath now controls the skulls and 59ers that at first pitted Alex against 3 skulls but stopped them after being told the plan, the day before the escape Donovan is taken by wheezers but Alex continues the plan and goes to room 2 before the alarm but is captured by the guard that killed his friend and framed him and Toby merchant is captured to but the balloons exploded and is nearly killed by the guard until he is saved by Monty, a boy that he helped from skulls but got taken and transformed to a wheezer then a blacksuit, before he dies he tells Alex to not forget his name if he is captured, then with a smile jumps into the river.

The rating system for this book is on of 1 to 5 stars with 1 star being a horrible book, and 5 stars being a must read. Student rating for this book: 3.5 out of 5.

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