Cameron

Review up sometime soon

I'm indifferent about this book...

Lockdown follows the life of Alex, who, after being framed for a heinous crime, is sent to Furnace Penitentiary, an underground prison that's presumably worse than Hell. And, from the details that the Alex gives you, you can pretty much come to the conclusion that, yes, Furnace, is worse than Hell.

But to me, I didn't feel like it. Everything that happened whilst Alex being down there, didn't frighten me like I wish it would have. When he described the mutated dogs, I saw myself rolling my eyes. When he would describe the Blacksuits or Wheezers, I would look half-interested. And as the time came for him to talk about the Warden, oh, my gosh, I wanted to shoot myself. I have nothing wrong when a character describes something once, but when they repeatedly do it, it gets repetitive and gives me a less liking to the book.

I did enjoy when the Wheezers and Blacksuits had taken Monty out of his cell, and when he returned, murdered the crap out of his cellmate, Kevein. That was about the only part that interested me throughout the whole book. I wasn't suspecting it, and I thank the author for doing that.

So that's why I'm indifferent towards this book (although I didn't tell you everything). I liked some of the characters...Alex, which is the main character, was the only one I didn't really like. He was annoying, doing stuff he knew he shouldn't do, after Donovan, who was in Furnace for five years or so, told him not to. And the plan to escape was unrealistic.

i am not rating this book. i did not expect to read about the smell of a baby triceratops carcass lmao. but the child i read it ti understands everything about dinosaurs so it wasn't too weird

this book started off strong and then it became very boring. I honestly could not tell you any of the characters names or why the person who was murdered was murdered or even if it was actually a murder. it's a 2.5 star book.

I don't know what to say about this story. I'm torn between giving it 3 stars or 4 stars. A lot of things just didn't work for me. One, being the slowness to the story. It bored me to death for the first half of the story, or the half before Ruby met up with Liam, Chubs, and Zu. If I didn't have the sequel already on my bookshelf, I probably wouldn't have finished it, but I'm kind of glad I did.

Although much didn't happen in much of the book, there was a part of me to want to see why everyone was raving about the ending. And, when I finally got to it, I'm not gonna lie, I was a little shocked. I didn't find it emotional or anything, but I was like :O for a while.

And I'm glad that there's a sequel too, because I want to know if Chubs is okay (he was my favorite character). Speaking of characters, Ruby annoyed the hell out of me. I was confused as to why she didn't use her powers in certain situations when she got to East River and certain things happened and I was all, “Ruby? Why you no use powers?!” She was just ugh, and I did not enjoy her one bit. Chubs all the way!

There's so much I need to know after that ending though. Ah!

i decided to read this with the kid i work with because the art style reminded me of the black lagoon books i used to read as a child. although the pictures were nice to look at, the story was just “meh” to me. the kid i read it to was barely focused too.