Madeleine Roux
Hardcover | Pages: 317 pages Rating: 3.64 | 43304 Users | 5396 Reviews
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| Title | : | Asylum (Asylum #1) |
| Author | : | Madeleine Roux |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 317 pages |
| Published | : | August 20th 2013 by HarperTeen |
| Categories | : | Horror. Young Adult. Mystery. Fantasy. Paranormal. Fiction. Thriller |
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Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-novel perfect for fans of the New York Times bestseller Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program—it's a lifeline. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excited to finally make some friends in his last summer before college. But when he arrives at the program, Dan learns that his dorm for the summer used to be a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. And not just any asylum—a last resort for the criminally insane.
As Dan and his new friends, Abby and Jordan, explore the hidden recesses of their creepy summer home, they soon discover it's no coincidence that the three of them ended up here. Because the asylum holds the key to a terrifying past. And there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.
Featuring found photos of unsettling history and real abandoned asylums and filled with chilling mystery and page-turning suspense, Madeleine Roux's teen debut, Asylum, is a horror story that treads the line between genius and insanity.
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| Original Title: | Asylum |
| ISBN: | 0062220969 (ISBN13: 9780062220967) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Asylum #1 |
| Setting: | New Hampshire(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.64 From 43304 Users | 5396 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books Asylum (Asylum #1)
I'm really disappointed in this book. I don't know if it was the narrator of the audiobook or if I just didn't like the writing but it wasn't for me. Honestly I had it all figured out pretty early on and I was waiting for a twist but it was just kind of predictable. Not for me which is a shame as it's been on my list forever.The cover is super creepy and the story echoes that. YA creepy is about all the horror I can handle and this was just perfect. I think the first spine tingling thing was the main character having the same name as the warden. If you're into things that go bump in the night then this one's for you.
A copy of Asylum was provided to me by Harper Children's/Edelweiss for review purposes.The word Asylum alone evokes a feeling of dread. A twinge of apprehension. Unfortunately the title was the only thing that elicited that expected response, because the book was honestly extremely dry and wearisome.The idea behind the story was solid: 16 year-old Dan comes to stay for several weeks over the summer at a college prep program and he finds out their dorms are located in what once was an asylum for
This one was pretty much a bust across the board. Despite a wonderfully creepy cover and an attempt to ape the success of Peregrines vintage photography gimmick, Asylum failed to live up to the expectations set by the former, or the promise inherent in the latter. Its hard not to compare Asylum to Peregrine, given the obvious influence (aaaaaand the fact that I read them back-to-back), but they actually provide an interesting set of contrasting misses. On the one hand, Peregrine, while
This book is nowhere near creepy and horrific. I was expecting to read some spine-tingling, creepy haunting but this book is nothing like that. I was really excited to read this, but it was a huge dissapointment. This whole book was meh. This book was nothing special. Jordon literally had no purpose in this book. The romance was so unnecessary. Some of the pictures in this book were pretty creepy and somewhere in the beginning I actually shivered from the creepiness, but after that nothing
This is a very generous 4 stars, more like a 3.75 stars. It gets a bonus 0.25 stars because of the mini little twist at the end that I wasn't expecting.This book definitely got better as it went along. It started out with a cheesy really underdeveloped storyline and really juvenile characters. The writing was weird and awkward at times. The romance was introduced really rapidly and had no build up so it didn't really make sense. All of this, however, was solved by the end. The writing got less
I enjoyed this book much more this time around than the last time I read it. I was itching for a creepy yet easy read and that's exactly what this gave me. I always enjoy it when the plot of a story is centred around an old, dark building with secrets to be uncovered. This provided all of that and more! Add in the slightly disturbing photographs and creepy handwritten notes and I'm 100% sold!
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