The pictures were just as intriguing, and I liked the idea of people telling a story with pictures included. The book has been compared to Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children so much that it is hard not to compare Asylum to the former, and honestly, I picked up the book because of Miss Peregrine, so…yeah. In which case, I’d just think he’s an absolute troll. All it really needed was a clown and I’d be scared out of my mind. The funny thing is Asylum puts two of the main reasons why I try to avoid these books: ghosts and asylums. In this case, it was definitely the photographs and the book cover that brought me to reading Asylum. And while it’s not my typical faire, it randomly shows up on my reading list out of whim or initial curiosity. Whatever the case, horror isn’t my go-to for reading.īut I have tried to branch out. And then that leads to thoughts about said demon being hungry and me running out of sacrifices to satiate it. Sometimes it’s because I want to avoid the gorefest in some, but honestly it’s mostly because when I read horror, I tend to let my imagination get the better of me, and then I start worrying about the wee demon I am sure I have under my bed. And there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried. Because the asylum holds the key to a terrifying past. And not just any asylum-a last resort for the criminally insane.Īs 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. 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. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excited to finally make some friends in his last summer before college. Still, you wouldn’t find me anywhere near one of those things.įor sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program-it’s a lifeline. I’m not big on horror reads, but I’m also not big on horror, and yet I found myself getting desensitized after playing Until Dawn multiple times…So you crazy asylums can go suck it. That said, at least the scare factor wasn’t as bad as I imagined. And, like, seriously, who converts a dilapidated asylum into a dorm room. A lot of this probably has to do with there being way too many characters that were too coincidentally linked with the asylum. I feel like I’ve gotten more paranoid now after reading this book than before I went into it.

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