Lockdown

A strong 3.5 stars

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.