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    Fugitives
    Fugitives
    Fugitives
    Audiobook8 hours

    Fugitives

    Written by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Narrated by Shaun Grindell

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    About this audiobook

    More pulse-pounding action and shocking surprises in the fourth installment of the Escape from Furnace series!

    Forever altered by his experience in Furnace Penetentiary, Alex has done the impossible and escaped. But the battle for freedom is only just beginning.

    Charged with his superhuman abilities, Alex must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets-the truth about the man who built the prison, the man known as Alfred Furnace.

    And to do that he must stop running and finally confront his greatest fears.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 16, 2019
    ISBN9781977340726
    Fugitives
    Author

    Alexander Gordon Smith

    Alexander Gordon Smith lives in Norwich, England. "The Stephen King of YA horror," he is the author of The Fury; The Inventors; the Escape from Furnace series, which has sold nearly half-a-million copies; and the Devil's Engine series.

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    • 3/5
      I really wish they would have kept the voice actor from the previous 3 books. The guy is so much more dramatic and it’s harder to tell which character he’s reading for unless the text specifically makes him read it aloud.
    • 5/5
      I have really been enjoying this series so far so my expectations for this book when I started where quite high already, and I am pleased to say not only did it meet said high expectations, but it exceeding them. I would say that so far this is the best book in the series. Alex & his little posse have finally escaped the Furnace, but where do you hide when there is no where to hide? Before they can even work out where they are going it appears that forces beyond the prisoners and things contained within the prison have been released and Alex & co are suddenly thrust into another set of circumstances which are beyond normal.Quite the thrill ride, lots of action, the story framework continues to build with more details sprinkled throughout about the warden & Furnace himself. A very enjoyable book.
    • 5/5
      This is the fourth book in the Lockdown series. Forever altered by the evil prison-workers in Furnace Penitentiary, Alex has done the impossible and escaped. But the battle for freedom is only just beginning. When they make it out of the prison, the whole city is in shambles and the demons created by Furnace are planning to takeover their city. Luckily, Alex has his “friends” by his side and they work together to stop the madness they have created by escaping. The cover of this book is quite scary actually. It has the main character, Alex, running through a tunnel with bright, vibrant colors behind him. The main audience of this book should be matured kids, adults, or people who like suspenseful reads. This book can make you think about the world in a whole different perspective.
    • 3/5
      In the book Fugitives Alex, Zee, and Simon escape from the prison. They run as the Swat team and all of Furnace's creatures are on their heels. As they try to figure out what is going on, they find a red-spotted nectar. Now every time a berserker, rat, or black suit bite someone they turn into a creature. As the plague spreads it infects the whole city and spreads to the world. As they try to fight of the creatures they meet Lusy. Lusy and Zee end up falling in love and she joins them on the journey to killing Furnace and ending the war. They make it to the tower where Furnace is supposed to be. Alex runs and meets the Warden. After a big fight Alex kills the Warden and he drinks the Warden's blood and becomes a berserker and he promises to kill Furnace once and for all.I would rate this book a 3 or 4 because I liked it but not as much as the others. There was a lot of action and I found it very interesting. I like the twists and the way the events are placed in the book. I also think that Lucy is a good character for Zee. Like I said about the other Furnace books, it's not for very young kids. But I would still recommend it. So far I have liked this series very much. I don't think it is my favorite but it is probably in my top 5. So if you like adventure books, read this book!
    • 4/5
      What are the actual outcomes of your actions?
    • 5/5
      This is such an amazing series. Out of all four of the (soon to be) five books, this is my least favorite. That is not to say it isn't good though. It really is...however, this book does not take place in the prison like the other three did. I spins the story a bit and I liked the author's idea, but, like I said it wasn't my favorite of the whole awesome series. That being said, can't wait for five, this one ends crazy. 8/10
    • 3/5
      In Fugitives, Smith leaves the relative literary safety of Furnace, and has to really step up his world-building. In this book, there are new horrors, worse than any found in Furnace. For example, a kind of zombie/reverse vampire. If that doesn't make sense to you, read the book.

      I definitely loved the fact that escaping didn't make anything better. Obviously, I thought law enforcement would be against the escaping convicts, but the broadening of the scope of what was going on made it pretty epic. I look forward to finding out just exactly what Furnace has been doing in the next book; Alex's view and knowledge of what's happening is limited, and we can only know what he does.

      Smith's bread and butter is monsters and mayhem. He does that well, and comes up with such strange and creepy creatures that I do not envy him his dreams. Anyway, I want to give him props for also drawing attention to the fact that regular people can be just as bad, possibly worse (?) than the monsters. Certainly I tended to find those scenes most discomfiting, probably because they seemed much more realistic and pertinent to real life than the rest of this series.

      Although I'm somewhat concerned about how long Smith is going to drag this series out, I am willing to continue reading along when the next installment, Execution, comes out later this year. For those who have enjoyed the series thus far, it only gets more crazy and exciting in Fugitives.
    • 2/5
      ***SPOILERS***I think I fell out of love with this series in the last book, but I want to see it through to the end.Writing reviews of books in a series has always been tricky for me, so this will be short.I think the thing that irked me most was the language. This is obviously a young adult book, but it is also obviously meant for boys. Also, the descriptions are off-kilter. Mainly, how Alex is described, post transformation. In earlier books we are lead to believe that the blacksuits are barely human, but Alex is still taken as a human. It is frustrating.Also, everything is "a million times worse" or what have you.One thing I did like was that the relationship was a) only just budding and b) wasn't between Alex and Lucy, but rather Zee and Lucy.I have checked out of the story, but I will read the last one just to see it through to the end.
    • 2/5
      Book review by Joe M., posted by CA Library:"Spoiler Alert -- My book “Fugitives” by Alexander Gordon smith was a very well written. It is fiction, but is told as a nonfiction. “Fugitives” is about a teenager named Alex ( the protagonist ), him and his friends have just escaped Furnace and are trying to fight their way out of the city. I liked the book a lot, for many different reasons. One thing I liked about it was that the conversations between all of the characters were very relatable. It was relatable because the way the characters spoke is the same way people talk now. Another thing that I like about this was that each and every chapter was intriguing and kept me interested in the story. I found every chapter interesting because there was constant action and instance dialogue between the characters. I also liked that in the they ( Alex, Zee, and Simon ) met a new character ; named Lucy. One thing that I didn’t like about the book was that it left a lot of things open for the next book and it didn’t answer many questions I had from the last book before. Another thing I didn’t like about the story was that Alex lost his mind in the end of the and he couldn’t control his body. I didn’t like this because it made him a completely different character then the one from the other books. I would rate this book 2 out of 5 stars. I give it 2 because it left too many things open. This book is similar to the “Gone” series. I recommend that if you enjoy this series then you should read the “Gone” series."
    • 3/5
      The series is almost becoming too violent for me. I really enjoyed Lockdown, but am liking each successive book less and less. In this, the boys have broken out of Furnace and are above ground, but Alfred Furnace has launched an attack on the city, and the civilians are being changed into rats (mindless, zombielike creatures who do whatever they are told. The citizens are injected with a new version of nectar, which works on their bodies immediately, but doesn't make them as obscenely strong as before. Alex, Simon and Zee end up taking on the Warden on their way to taking on the mastermind of the entire prison; Alfred Furnace. But in order to battle the beserkers, Alex has to ingest more of the nectar, and there is a very good chance that he will not survive the assault to his humanity.