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Asylum Madeleine Roux Books

I have to admit I am a grown up who bought this book for myself to read. I am a big fan of the Miss Perigrine's Home for Pecular Children series and this was a recomended for you selection I decided to give a shot. It's an ok story, the idea of the haunted school/old asylum is a little played out & this brought nothing new to the genre. I could see younger teens & preteens enjoying it & getting a good scare or two from it.


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Asylum Madeleine Roux Books Reviews

Asylum is a chilling, creeptastic novel about Dan, a high school student attending a summer program for gifted students at a college in New Hampshire. The college used to be an asylum, and parts of the basement still hosts the old chambers. Dan is geeky and a bit of a loner, so he’s thrilled to meet gorgeous, outgoing Abby, and her friend, Jordan. The three of them form a close bond, and they even take some classes together. But one night they go exploring in the basement of the asylum, and that’s when things start to go wrong.

Dan is tormented by nightmares, people get hurt, and the three of them receive strange messages that could be from the beyond. On top of that, we see a glimpse of Dan’s past, his visits to a therapist, and some reasons are alluded to, but unfortunately never fully explained.

The creepiness is high in this one, and the author does a great job describing the creepier scenes. However, the characters were problematic. Dan has so many secrets shrouding his past it’s difficult to connect to him. For a large part of the book, I thought he would be an unrealiable narrator, and this also kept me distant from him, but at the same time, heightened the mystery. Jordan and Abby felt a little underdeveloped, and their behavior was all over the place – some thanks to the asylum, some of it seemingly random.

I felt like a lot of things weren’t explained yet and some issues could’ve been explored further, but overall, I had a fantastic time reading this. Plus, the photographs gave the book a nice touch.
This is not a book just for young adults! Although the main characters are all balancing on the precipice of leaping from high school to college, anyone who has made that interesting radical change in lifestyle will be able to identify with them. In this story three gifted high school students meet at a summer pre-college program targeted to their intellect. All of them carry their "geekness" into the program and manage to blend together in spite of their differing appearances and personalities. They learned to hide their quirks in high school by wearing certain costumes and assuming specific mannerisms, but it doesn't take the three of them long to discover that they deeply care for each other.

The main antagonist in this story is Brookline, a shuttered psychiatric hospital turned into a dormitory for students attending summer courses at the college. It turns out that Brookline is an old, crumbling, and imposing building that not even a fresh coat of paint and extensive landscaping can improve. It is now on the state's list of historical sites and will be preserved in all of its present ugliness. Brookline is one of the "old school" asylums where unmentionable experiments were conducted on patients deemed to be incurable, an old and dark building of secrets too horrific to once again see the light of day. An initial short exploration of an "off limits" section by our three geeks yields some interesting clues to the past worth investigating. And so the story begins.

Madeleine Roux has written an interesting thriller that draws you in as soon as you see the book cover. On the dark cover stands a young lady slightly out of focus who looks like she might be moving in the whirling dervish motions currently favored in horror films. The end papers are black, the interior pages feature several black and white photos of actual asylums, and the chapter markings are all dark and dreary. The book's cover is extremely well done and draws you to it like a magnet. All of the interior photos reinforce the readers' perception of what insane asylums actually look like, complete with pictures of patients, staff, and operating theater. All-in-all a great marketing package.

While the book is listed at being 320 pages long, the actual story is double-spaced and actually occupies about 242 pages. The rest is photos, chapter markers, acknowledgements, and indices. While is is a pretty quick read, the additional inclusions help to reinforce the atmosphere of the story. The writing is pretty tight and moves along nicely, but things get a little bit off balance and busy at the end. A great build up somehow manages to turn into a somewhat messy ending. And that's really too bad.
I have to admit I am a grown up who bought this book for myself to read. I am a big fan of the Miss Perigrine's Home for Pecular Children series and this was a recomended for you selection I decided to give a shot. It's an ok story, the idea of the haunted school/old asylum is a little played out & this brought nothing new to the genre. I could see younger teens & preteens enjoying it & getting a good scare or two from it.