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Asylum

By: Madeleine Roux
Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
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Publisher's summary

Once you get in, there's no getting out.

For 16-year-old Dan Crawford, a summer program for gifted students is the chance of a lifetime. No one else at his high school gets his weird fascinations with history and science, but at the New Hampshire College Prep program, such quirks are all but required.

Dan arrives to find 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 it turns out Brookline was no ordinary psych ward. And there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.

This mind-bending listening experience blurs the lines between past and present, friendship and obsession, genius and insanity.

©2013 HarperCollins Publishers (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers

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I really enjoyed the idea of this book. But I feel it needed to be a bit more developed personally. This book is perfect for younger thrill seekers.

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gripping

good plot twists. liked the characters and naration. I look forward to listening to the rest of the books in the series.

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Great story telling

I drive a lot at night and some of the places I go to are kind of spooky so hearing this story in the background really gets me looking over my shoulder

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Amazing.

I loved it but there was times when it got a bit confusing . Other than that it was a great story, i will definitely be buying the next book.

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amazing

this is a great series that I've read and listened to countless times. highly recommend.

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Hard to get into

This book was a little hard to get into. I tried several times to read it but this time I pushed myself to finish it. Once I got into it, I really enjoyed it. I already downloaded the second book in the series.

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It was readable

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The character's were awful and the story line needed some help.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Anything by Jack Kilborn or Michaelbrent Collings

What about Michael Goldstrom’s performance did you like?

It was okay.

Was Asylum worth the listening time?

No

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A little slow

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This wasn't "super scary" like I had read. It was very well written but a little slow and not super original.

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Great book story, really keeps you interested!

Excelent book enjoyed every word, narator was great, defenetly downloading the second part!
hope it's as good as the first.

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Not bad, not my Favorite

This was a quick listen. While it's more in the young adult mystery/thriller realm, I actually think it would be a great delve into the genre for middle grade readers as well! I may have enjoyed the story better reading it myself than listening. the narrorator was not my favorite and the attempts at differing voices (especially womens...) was quite amateur and just not good. It made the characters seem much more juvenile than they're supposed to be. Great commute read or something between more intense books!

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