{Review} Asylum @Authoroux

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August 20, 2013

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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Biography

MADELEINE ROUX received her BA in Creative Writing and Acting from Beloit College in 2008. In the spring of 2009, Madeleine completed an Honors Term at Beloit College, proposing, writing and presenting a full-length historical fiction novel. Shortly after, she began the experimental fiction blog Allison Hewitt Is Trapped. Allison Hewitt Is Trapped quickly spread throughout the blogosphere, bringing a unique serial fiction experience to readers.

Born in Minnesota, she now lives and works in Wisconsin where she enjoys the local beer and preparing for the eventual and inevitable zombie apocalypse.

I should have known that I wasnt going to like this one when it said it was for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.  The story sounded great!  A 16 year old Dan comes to stay for weeks over the summer at a college program and he finds our that the dorms are located in what was once an asylum!  Now how cool does that sound?!  Now the issues came with the characters!  They go from acting their age to acting like children! And to top it off it just didnt feel real!  I will say one thing the pictures that were included in the Home for Peculiar Children were wonderfully creepy.  Even though I didnt like the book those pictures gave me nightmares.  Now in this ARC the pictures were not well made and most of them that were included didnt even illustrate what was being talked about in the book which made the pictures pointless to say the least. Lastly I cant believe that this is being made into a series.  It could have been a wonderful book if a little more care would have been taken!

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."