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Prison State: Episode One
On the planet Utoki, crime is virtually non-existent. That’s because if someone commits a crime, no matter how small, them and their immediate family are sent to The Prison.
The Prison is where all criminals are sent to spend the rest of their lives. There are no rules, and no way to escape. The only way to shorten your sentence is to die. Disease, radiation, and starvation are only some of the things that will kill you. The War of the Innocent, however, is the main threat.
When Max is sent to The Prison, he just wants to survive. But when he is attacked by a girl who thinks he's "The One", he's forced to question everything about his life, and choose whether or not to run from destiny.
Raven is a survivor. Having been in The Prison for as long as she remembers, she’s one of the few people who have come to call The Prison “home”. Daughter of the leader of the Innocent, she’s a powerful figure in The Prison. But when she discovers that the stories she was told as a child of the lost city of Destiny—and the monsters inside—are true, she sets out on a journey to find a way to protect her people. And maybe, just maybe, she could find a way to protect her people from Destiny, and end The War at the same time. Even if it means traveling into the heart of the enemy.
The Prison is where all criminals are sent to spend the rest of their lives. There are no rules, and no way to escape. The only way to shorten your sentence is to die. Disease, radiation, and starvation are only some of the things that will kill you. The War of the Innocent, however, is the main threat.
When Max is sent to The Prison, he just wants to survive. But when he is attacked by a girl who thinks he's "The One", he's forced to question everything about his life, and choose whether or not to run from destiny.
Raven is a survivor. Having been in The Prison for as long as she remembers, she’s one of the few people who have come to call The Prison “home”. Daughter of the leader of the Innocent, she’s a powerful figure in The Prison. But when she discovers that the stories she was told as a child of the lost city of Destiny—and the monsters inside—are true, she sets out on a journey to find a way to protect her people. And maybe, just maybe, she could find a way to protect her people from Destiny, and end The War at the same time. Even if it means traveling into the heart of the enemy.
55 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 25, 2013
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May 6, 2014
The opening sequence where the new arrivals are herded into the prison to await their assimilation stage. It sounds like a game-when the doors open you run for your life and hope to get to a place of safety before someone kills you-and most do not survive this stage. This sounded interesting to me and it was nice the way the tension built as the doors were ready to open. This was the only part of the book that I enjoyed.
When the doors opened the book went a bit confusing for me. I wasn't exactly sure who was shooting, who was good or who was bad or what was really going on. It was a bit of a free for all. In the middle of all this we get a story of a Princess defying her strict father and it felt as if the story instantly shifted from dystopian futuristic prison to the court of King Arthur in the Middle Ages. I felt that the book couldn't quite decide if it was dystopian, fantasy or historical and it was just a bit of a mess to follow for a short story.
When the doors opened the book went a bit confusing for me. I wasn't exactly sure who was shooting, who was good or who was bad or what was really going on. It was a bit of a free for all. In the middle of all this we get a story of a Princess defying her strict father and it felt as if the story instantly shifted from dystopian futuristic prison to the court of King Arthur in the Middle Ages. I felt that the book couldn't quite decide if it was dystopian, fantasy or historical and it was just a bit of a mess to follow for a short story.
January 5, 2014
This book is baaaaaad. I got the first episode for free on the Kindle and the dialogue is wooden and like nothing spoken by actual humans. The characters are the most shallow cardboard stereotypes imaginable, and the author still doesn't even manage to keep their characterization straight. Really, it sucks, and I have no idea how the author has managed to get people to read his other works if this is representative of their quality.
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