Escape from Asylum
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Horror
3.8
(352)
Madeleine Roux
In this terrifying prequel novel to the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, a teen is wrongfully committed to the Brookline psychiatric hospital and must find a way out—before he becomes the next victim of the evil warden’s experiments.With the page-turning suspense and unsettling found photographs from real asylums that led Publishers Weekly to call Asylum “a strong YA debut,” Escape from Asylum is perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.The nightmare is just beginning.Ricky Desmond has been through this all before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn’t belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program—a program that the warden claims will not cure him but perfect him—Ricky realizes that he may not be able to wait for his mom a second longer. With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a fellow patient, Ricky needs to escape now.Set long before Dan, Abby, and Jordan ever walked the hallways of the Brookline asylum—back when it was still a functioning psych ward and not a dorm—Escape from Asylum is a mind-bending and scary installment in the Asylum series that can stand on its own for new readers or provide missing puzzle pieces for series fans.
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Author
Madeleine Roux
Pages
368
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2016-06-14
ISBN
0062424440 9780062424440
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"I lowkey couldn't sleep after reading this I highly recommend it"
Invisible Ghost
"It has a great LGBTQIA story"
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Abby The Godess
"It was a very quick and entertaining read. It can be read as a stand alone and doesn't give anything away rom the trilogy but I was glad I'd read the trilogy first and would recommend the same. <br/><br/>For people who did read the trilogy there is a little more of a look inside the asylum and the warden and there are some interesting connections. For example, room 3808 where Ricky ends up is the same room that Dan Crawford is in during the summer in the Asylum book. There are other connections as well but don't want to give them away. <br/><br/>One possible connection is Nurse Ash in this book. Is she connected to the Ash family (in Catacomb)? Not said in this book. <br/><br/>Some things I didn't like:<br/>-- personally I felt the Kay character sounded like a watered down version of Abby. I just kept picturing Abby even though physically they are nothing alike. I'm not sure if it was the mannerisms, the way she spoke or what. <br/>-- this book has a weird "coincidence" that really isn't one. The warden's plan for this heavily relied on Ricky needing to be committed to an asylum which seemed like a HUGE stretch<br/>-- there are visions and ghosts just like the trilogy. I think the author hinted at why but missed a great opportunity to delve more into the ghosts and really make Brookline become a "character" in its own right. <br/><br/>I still think Asylum was the best of the books but this was a good read (nothing spectacular or horrible) and definitely worth reading if you're a fan of the series."
Sandra Lee
"Great series! I believe there is a total of 5 books in it. "
Sabrina Ferrante
"It was really good!"
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