Asylum -

Madeleine Roux

HarperCollins

2013

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780062220967

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." 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.

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—formerly a psychiatric hospital. 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 here . . . secrets that link Dan and his friends to the asylum's dark past. Because Brookline was no ordinary mental hospital, and there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.

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Terror no manicômio

O que me chamou atenção para Asylum foi principalmente a capa e o fato de ter fotos de manicômios reais entre suas páginas. Madeleine não decepciona no jeito de contar a história. A evolução é bem interessante, cada vez que Dan descobre algo novo sobre os pacientes e diretor do Brookline instiga muito a curiosidade. As fotos complementam bem o texto. O final que achei um pouco fraco. Sei lá, esperava mais. Mas isso em nenhum momento me desanimou para ler o segundo livro da série.