Madeleine Roux's New York Times bestselling Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-illustrated novel that Publishers Weekly called a strong YA debut that reveals the enduring impact of buried trauma on a place.
For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, the New Hampshire College Prep program is the chance of a lifetime. Except that when Dan arrives, he finds that the usual summer housing has been closed, forcing students to stay in the crumbling Brookline Dorm. The dorm was formerly 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 start exploring Brookline's twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover disturbing secrets about what really went on at Brookline . . . secrets that link Dan and his friends to the asylum's dark past. Because Brookline was no ordinary asylum, and there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.
Featuring found photographs from real asylums and filled with chilling mystery and page-turning suspense, Asylum is a horror story that treads the line between genius and insanity, perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
Don't miss any of the books in the Asylum series, or Madeleine Roux's shivery fantasy series, House of Furies
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Contemporary Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense ThrillersHad to read this one cause I loved the 1st book. While it's a good read to me it was a little slow but it finally gets going.
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I must be the odd one out; but, I loved this book. Forever Odd was fun to read; that's my barometer of a good book. Forever Odd was nonstop suspense in the most interesting settings: the underground waterway, the old hotel, the crawl spaces under the building. I could picture Odd in all of these scenarios and I liked seeing how he planned to escape from each dangerous predicament he encountered. The villains were more believable...
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Publishers Weekly calls Dean Koontz a master storyteller, and in my view, they're right on target. I've read him for over 30 years and was hooked with "Whispers", absolutely one of the creepiest books ever written - and I mean that in a good sense. I still get goose bumps over that one. Odd Thomas is exactly what his name implies. Why? Because he can see dead people. Although they can't verbally communicate with him, Odd...
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Koontz should do nothing else from now on but tell the story of Odd Thomas. I thought this was a totally enjoyable and intriguing follow-up to Odd Thomas. What is missing, i suspect, for many readers was the love story Odd had with Bronwyn, which was heart-wrenching and beautiful and likely not repeatable. I expect Koontz to write at least twelve more Odd Thomas books or I will yell and scream like Datura.
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In FOREVER ODD, author Dean Koontz continues the story that he began in ODD THOMAS. Odd Thomas is a kind and gentle young man of twenty-one. Odd is the name he was given by his parents at birth and he's even more unusual than his name suggests. He lives in a world that would be terrifying for most people, but his gentle nature and belief in God has made his life bearable. Odd can see dead people who have passed away, but...
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