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Are you looking for a good horror book? Have you been waiting for a gory new series to start reading? Try Lockdown, the first book in the Escape from Furnace series by Alexander Gordon Smith. Alex Sawyer was framed for the murder of his best friend and sent to the Furnace Penitentiary, which was created after a crime wave that drove the government to create a very unorthodox—and very dangerous—prison for young offenders. Furnace is deep underground, and contains horrors Alex has never imagined—huge bloodthirsty dogs without skin, gigantic guards who always seem to have an eye on you, and shrunken creatures in gas masks who steal boys from their cells in the middle of the night. And even if you can avoid all those terrors, you still have to deal with the prison gangs and survive the daily hard labor. Alex makes friends with a few of his cellmates, and together they decide that escape (or to die trying) is far preferable to life spent at Furnace, so they begin to devise a plan—however, it’s no easy feat to escape from Furnace, and Alex and his friends will need more than just luck to get out… This book is an excellent beginning for the Escape from Furnace series, and will leave you wanting more. If you enjoy it, keep an eye out for the second book, Solitary, to be released in October.