Having read Miss Peregrine before I had even purchased this novel, I was really looking forward to getting my teeth into a similar style of story. I am well within my rights to point out that fact as on most websites selling or publicising the novel it’s first line of description is: Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-novel perfect for fans of the New York Times bestseller Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. I thought that I would be getting my hands on an interesting and original novel – but what I was delivered was nothing short of an underdeveloped attempt to cash-in on the presentation style of novels like Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children.
I wished that the story had been done in a different way because the idea was what drew me in.
It felt as though Roux had flicked through Google images or the clip art section on Word and picked out the creepiest images she could find. Some seemed incredibly and obviously fake, which ruined the immersion of the story. The location, characters and scenarios all fit along with the images. Asylum is another story that is based around a series of photographs found by the author. My time reading this novel was quick but each time I picked it up, I did tend to question why I was even reading it. With no memory of what really happened on that night, Dan begins to question his own sanity and tries to seek the truth before the killer strikes again. Local whispers and an unlocked off-limits room reveal that their dorm house was once the building used to hold the criminally insane, and as the trio dig deeper into the mysteries surrounding why they were really drawn to this school, a murder takes place in the style of the institutes most famous patient. Sixteen-year-old loner Dan Crawford has been sent to attend a summer program for prospective students and soon meets two friends, Abby and Jordan, with whom he discovers the secret of the dorm house. It is set in the location of New Hampshire College Prep – a college which was established on the site of an abandoned mental asylum. Asylum is a 2013 young adult supernatural-thriller novel written by American author, Madeleine Roux.
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