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Violence
A lot
Significant prison violence and monster attacks in the YA horror register
Language
Some
Adult language in the YA thriller register
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate psychological intensity; the claustrophobic underground prison creates effective dread
What this book is about
The first Escape from Furnace novel follows fourteen-year-old Alex, wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Furnace Penitentiary — a maximum-security prison deep underground, run by the warden and staffed by creatures that hunt the boys at night. Gordon Smith writes YA horror thriller with genuine intensity; the prison violence and monster attacks are disturbing for the genre. For older YA readers who enjoy dark thriller fiction.
Notes for sensitive readers
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