Madeleine Roux’s New York Times bestselling Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-illustrated novel that Publishers Weekly called “a strong YA debut that reveals the enduring impact of buried trauma on a place.”Featuring found photographs from real asylums and filled with chilling mystery and page-turning suspense, Asylum is a horror story that treads the line between genius and insanity, … that treads the line between genius and insanity, perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, the New Hampshire College Prep program is the chance of a lifetime. Except that when Dan arrives, he finds that the usual summer housing has been closed, forcing students to stay in the crumbling Brookline Dorm—formerly a psychiatric hospital. As Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan start exploring Brookline’s twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover disturbing secrets about what really went on here . . . secrets that link Dan and his friends to the asylum’s dark past. Because Brookline was no ordinary mental hospital, and there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.
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I am currently reading Asylum interesting so far. Has anyone read this book and the two others that follow?
Dan Crawford has come to Brookline for a college prep course. He seems to be doing great, especially after meeting Abby and Jordan, who quickly become his friends. But Brookline has its own secrets. It was once a mental hospital, an asylum, and it has a gruesome past. Things begin to spiral out of control when Dan’s memory becomes spotty and something eerie happens to his friends. Is there a connection he’s not seeing between him and Brookline, or is he really losing his mind?
This book was so creepy. Borrowing the old photos idea from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, these photos are just as creepy, but they are exclusively from asylums. The characters were developed excellently, and the plot had me guessing from the start. Some of the twists were expected, but overall, it was a great book and I can’t wait to dive into the rest of the Asylum books.
I would recommend this book to fans of Miss Peregrine’s, as well as those who enjoy creepy stories and haunting secrets. An overall good read that captured me from the first word, Asylum will chill your blood and yet draw you in until you reach its enthralling conclusion.
After reading the description, I bought all three books in the series and binged them. Next time I bought books, I got the novellas and Escape from Asylum. I loved them and have recommended them to multiple people. Amazing books. Don’t stop writing!:)
Interesting enough to finish but wouldn’t read the next in the series.
I love It!!! I have read it 15 times.
Was definitly scary, I do reccomend no one younger than 13 read this book it has some VERY innapropriate parts other then that it’s good!
This whole series is pure GOLD! I haven’t read her other books, but I’m certainly looking into it.
A disjointed hodgepodge of horrible characters. The atmosphere was okay, though. It was disappointing, because for a book called “Asylum”, there was a surprising lack of creepy asylum stuff. That’s really my problem when someone tries to write a story about a haunted sanatorium or evil asylum: there are next to no interactions of purpose, whether it is scary or setup, save for those that pushed the rushed and transparent romance.
This is an excellent book. It kept me wanting more. I was thoroughly engaged the entire way through and sometimes I just didn’t know how to feel about Jordan. I never saw the end coming, and I always see it a million miles away… Incredible book.
Wow…
The book was average. The development of the creepy school grounds was short of good. The rush to an ending that fell flat. I wouldn’t read it again.