I am currently reading the second book in the Escape From Furnace series, Solitary. In the first book, Alex, the main character is wrongly convicted of the murder of his best friend, Toby. As punishment. he is sent to life imprisonment in one of the worst prisons of England, Furnace. When Alex reaches Furnace, he makes a few friends in a boy his age named Zee, and in his cell mate Donovan. But Furnace is not all about friends, there are many dangerous gangs roaming around, always willing to pick a fight, and Alex has to do his best to avoid being shanked by them as much as possible. There are also many horrors within the Prison that the warden often let's out on the prisoners, some included are a vicious dog who tears apart anyone foolish enough to get on it's bad side, and weird freaks in gasmasks who will randomly at night, inject a sorry victim with a fluid. Once knocked out by the injection, the person will be turned into a monster which will be forced to carry out the wardens demonic doings for the rest of their life. Eventually Alex plans an escape, by blowing a hole in a small crack within an unused tunnel, once this had been done, he found an underground river which took him into a huge subordinate cavern, now he has to face the challenge of finding a way to the surface and away from the nightmares of Furnace.
The book Solitary embodies the ultimate horrors in our minds, it shows exactly all the nightmares in this one prison,and unfortunately, Alex has to deal with them single handedly. We all have things that we fear, and in Solitary, it embodies all were scared of in one epic tale. While reading this story I though tof all the things I am scared of, and what it would be like if I had to face them just as Alex did so. Wouldn't that be awful for all of us? Facing our worst nightmare.
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