Out of the frying pan into the fryer… playing. Xander has no idea what the objective is, but he has no intention of letting her win.
Though Xander still sees most of the friends he’s made behind bars, he often doesn’t see the one person he wants: Phoebe.
She’s made friends at the new prison, and one, in particular, gets under Xander’s skin. Whether it’s due to the guy’s close proximity to her, or their increasingly close relationship, Xander has yet another reason for them to escape captivity.
Good thing he’s always up for a challenge.
Phoebe Atkinson’s ability has made her a target since she first entered the supernatural prison system. Her arrival at Lansing ensures the target on her back is now bigger.
With new inmates to contend with and a complicated new warden, Phoebe tries to find her way without the help of many of her friends. One, in particular, she misses more than the others: Xander.
They may be trapped in the same building, but she’s never felt further apart. In a place where it’s often every man for himself, not having him near is even harder.
But there’s been a void in Phoebe’s life for the past year, and it has nothing to do with Xander.
That doesn’t mean he can’t help her try to fill it.
Check out these books in the Supernatural Prison trilogy, a near-apocalyptic Young Adult Urban Fantasy:
Lock Down (Book One) – Available now!
Power Up (Book Two) – July 17th
Break Out (Book Three) – September 17th
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This review is for the series which I absolutely loved. The books are well-written with fully developed characters, each with their own voice. Each book is action-packed. The author makes you care about the characters and what they are going through. You want the main character and her friends to be victorious. I highly recommend this series. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed at all.
I’m so hooked on this series and it’s characters. Such an intriguing story! I couldn’t put this down. I had to know what happened next, what torture awaited these poor kids. Can anyone say bad parenting? Or maybe psychotic? Check out these books to see what I’m talking about. You won’t be disappointed. Now off to impatiently wait for the next book.
This is book two of the Supernatural Prison Trilogy and sees the kids from Leavenworth Prison being transferred to Lansing Prison, after their failed escape attempt. None of them are welcome by the kids at Lansing and they are easily differentiated by the colour of their prison clothes. What one of them, Phoebe, nicknamed Phoenix because of her superpower, didn’t know until she got there, was that her own mother is the warden here and called ‘The Witch’ by the inmates. Phoebe’s friends at Leavenworth were Xander, Rocky, Birdie, Cal, Tex and Cathy. They thought Leavenworth was bad, but they are about to find out that this new prison is so much worse, than they could ever have imagined. Phoebe’s father disappeared just about a year before she was thrown into prison, but her mother left the two of them many years before that.
Instead of just experiments and tests being carried out on them periodically, this prison’s idea of fun is to make the inmates fight against each other, until one cannot fight anymore, or is killed, if that is what the warden wants, or it is an accident. They don’t worry about what happens to the inmates and many of the guards have their own powers and have come up through the system. Once the kids reach the age of eighteen, they are either given jobs in the prison or released. But many believe that no one is actually released and that most are killed off once they reach eighteen, unless their power is deemed something desirable!
The friends are separated by the rotation they get stuck on, either A or B, meaning their meal and rec times are always at different times and they rarely catch sight of the others they know, except in passing occasionally. Phoebe ad Cathy are stuck on one rotation, with the others on the opposite one. But they find a friend in handsome and powerful Dane, who seems to want to help them out all the time. Even after Dane has to fight Xander and pulverises him, the bad feelings don’t last too long between them all. It’s hard to make friends when you don’t know who you can trust and the long-term inmates at Lansing seem to have that rule down pat. They know what some of the guards can do to hurt or punish them and the warden doesn’t seem to mind what they do most of the time!
Phoebe gets a huge target on her back once her actual power is broadcast to all the Lansing inmates and she can’t be alone, or someone will try to kill her, just to get a kick! When some of them get their rotation changed, Phoebe and Xander are finally back together on the same shifts, but so is Dane and he is obviously making the most of getting friendly with her, much to Xander’s annoyance. Xander and Phoebe had gotten close back in their former prison and even kissed once, but now they don’t seem to be able to get close at all. She is missing being close to her former friends, but she is missing her father even more, especially since she believes her mother knows where he is.
Matters will come to a head when the guards take a punishment for inmates using powers during an argument, too far and one of the kids is killed. This may be the distraction Phoebe wanted to look for her father, knowing he may be on the premises and her mother won’t reveal anything. This is her only chance, but the consequences will lead to a massive change for all of them, that may be a step closer to an ultimate faceoff. An event none of them may survive! I can’t wait to read the last book in the trilogy, Break Out, and found this one really easy to read, even as a standalone book, as I missed the chance to read the first book in the series. I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.
We pick up from where we left off in book 1, and I am thrilled with how this story turned out!
The gang is back together but not in the same sense. It’s a anxiety riddled rollercoaster of emotions and events that keeps you reading straight through the night! Action, magic, a dash of romance and a whole bunch of kickass….it’s a must read!