Review: Asylum - Madeline Roux

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Review: Asylum - Madeline Roux - August 2013

Do you believe in reincarnation or that deep within us are our ancestors bloodlines and traits? Asylum starts off just like any college fiction story where a group of intelligent students have been chosen to spend their summer at Summer School at the NHPC campus , the thing is though that the school recently purchased an old mental asylum and has converted into dorms for the students and some of the old patient rooms are now classrooms. In Asylum ,we meet a group of students from Daniel Crawford and his roommate Freddie to Artistic Abby and her friend Jordan. Over the first few days the group after Freddie's clues will go hunting around and find the old Warden's office. But , hidden in that office are clues to Abby, Dan's and Freddie's pasts. In Asylum , we don't read as much of Freddie and Abby but a huge lot about Daniel as he discovers he shared the same name with the Warden of the Mental Asylum and now someone wants him dead and is leaving him strange notes around the place. Notes that may cause Dan to think that he is in fact crazy and losing his mind ? Who is missing with Dan and who wants him to remember his past lives ?
Asylum was a fast but creepy and intense read and made me recall as I was reading it all the horror and thriller movies I have seen that involve a Mental Asylum.
The other thing about Asylum is that despite the Horror tales of the Asylum etc it is a clean teen book with no sex and little references to dating etc.


 


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