Author: Madeleine Roux
Year: 2016
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Genres/categories:
Young adult, Horror, Fantasy
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9780062424433
9780062448590
0062424432
0062448595 |
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In this terrifying prequel novel to the
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
to call
"a strong YA debut,"
is perfect for fans of
.
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
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
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 -
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.
This book is part of the "Asylum" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Sanctum"
First published in 2014
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 | "Asylum"
First published in 2013
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 | "Catacomb"
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