Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (book one)

I loved, loved, loved this book. It was an interesting concept. It took me a bit to get into it but something just clicked and I couldn't stop reading.

Incareron, supposedly a paradise to the outside world, is bascially a prison and a hell on the inside. Finn knows he wasn't born on the inside and is desperate to get out. He's a starseer and sees into the future. He makes a trek to find a way out along with three of his friends and some help from the outside world. Come to find out there are many twists to this story. The outside world is bound by the "protocol" keeping everything as it was during a particular century.

The one confusing part to me was what time frame this really did take place in since the protocol kept everything at a certain time period. So it seemed like it took place in the future but they pretended it was the past. That part I never really understood. Really looking forward to book two, Sapphique.