The Escape from Furnace Series

Escape from Furnace #0.5, 1-5

by Alexander Gordon Smith

In the adrenalin-fueled five-book Escape from Furnace series—full of action, adventure, and mystery—Alex Sawyer seeks to break free of a hellish underground penitentiary for teenage offenders. But with every step toward freedom, Alex finds there will be no escaping the secret horrors and nightmarish creatures haunting his endless nights until he confronts and destroys the prison’s mastermind.


This ebook bundle includes all five books in the series from author Alexander Gordon Smith: Lockdown, Solitary, Death Sentence, Fugitives, and Execution. Also included is the companion short story, The Night Children.

“Fresh and ferocious . . . will hook boys with its gritty, unrelenting surprises.” —James Patterson, author of the Maximum Ride series


“Furnace is hotter than hell and twice as much fun.” —Darren Shan, author of the Demonata series

Genres: Horror Thriller

1216 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 10, 2015

About the author

Alexander Gordon Smith is the author of the Escape from Furnace series of young adult novels, including Lockdown and Solitary. Born in 1979 in Norwich, England, he always wanted to be a writer. After experimenting in the service and retail trades for a few years, Smith decided to go to University. He studied English and American Literature at the University of East Anglia, and it was here that he first explored his love of publishing. Along with poet Luke Wright, he founded Egg Box Publishing, a groundbreaking magazine and press that promotes talented new authors. He also started writing literally hundreds of articles, short stories and books ranging from Scooby Doo comic strips to world atlases, Midsomer Murders to X-Files. The endless research for these projects led to countless book ideas germinating in his head. His first book, The Inventors, written with his nine-year-old brother Jamie, was published in the U.K. in 2007. He lives in England.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/alexan...

Reviews

[Professional_book_lover]

I loved this entire series! At every end of a chapter there was some kind of cliff hanger or something happened to the characters that just made you stare into the distance for a little bit because it's like "whoa". Everything slowly falls into place and it's AMAZING to read and for it to click in your head like 'oh, oh.... oh my gosh that means this person is this person and he did this!' THE CHARACTER AND PLOT DEVELOPMENT WAS OUTSTANDING! I mean, reading these books I continually had to remind myself I wasn't in furnace. At some points I could feel everything that was described, I don't even know how to say it. These books definitely pull on your heart strings (the best books always do), and the ending of the whole series was amazing! I would recommend these books to anybody, I've usually gotten the first book for people for special occasions and they always come back to me and ask for the second book!

[Elliot Jen]

Completely solid and tense teen horror. One of the original series that got me into dark literature as a tween. If you are a parent reading these reviews to see if it is appropriate for your children, probably not by your standard, but it isn't too violent or gory. There is grotesque elements that might disturb the less "odd" of your offspring, but chances are they are reading worse on the internet anyway and this is the perfect book for your emo, anti-establishment weirdo.

[LadyWolfwood]

A read you definitely won't regret and will remain one of my favorites. If you like thriller/horror and easy reads, this one is definitely for you.

[Arial Pappas]

I've been waiting for this series to be turned into a TV show or movie for 10 years and counting! This series gave me nightmares! So fucking good!

[Lilly]

These books were a full 5 stars. They are so action packed and fast paced. You will never want to take a break of reading it.

This is the best series I have EVER read.
(I take that back now but my point still remains. These are great books)

Action, fast paced, cliff hangers, amazing world building, and an author that I look up about every month to see what they are doing. Alexander G. Smith got an amazing idea with a main character who gets locked up in the furnace, a place I imagine about every month. Then turned an already amazing idea into a spectacular series with just as great writing.

I love all the characters (Donnavan is the best... Convince me otherwise.).

Thank you Alex G. Smith for creating this masterpiece and I highly recommend reading it.

[711Bosco]

This Series was amazingly dynamic with all kinds of different emotions , as it is described as the anther to be a horror series i kind of agree but also thing its an action thriller. It kept me glued to the book at all times . It shows how the innocence of children can be exploited.

[Aidan basal :)]

I just finished execution (the last book of this series) and it is up there with some of my favorites. The descriptive scenery and gritty details make it a blast to read and the plot twists are crazy! great book,

[Matthew]

this series is one of the darkest and most graphic i have ever read. it's great! i would read it again and again like i do the old horror films everyday.

[Taylor]

It was thrilling series from beginning to end. Always leaving you hanging with suspense. It puts you in an unescapable prison with monster guards gangs and a seemingly impossible break out.

[Andrew]

This series is very nostalgic for me since it was my favorite as a teenager!!! it will always be a five stars in my heart