There are a couple instances where Roux gets graphic in descriptions that could be unsettling for those with a weak stomach. While the book is fantastic, I wouldn’t recommend anyone who tends to be squeamish or easily scared read this novel. Overall, I loved Escape From Asylum and can’t wait to read the rest of the series.
I believe that Roux accurately portrayed the way many people viewed those “different” from the norm during the 1960s, the time in which the book is set. While their situation may not be typical, Kay and Ricky are relatable characters as well as representative of the LGBTQ community. Also, watching Ricky figure out the inner workings of the asylum reveals information not only about the setting, but about him. The book is captivating, even during the more gruesome scenes *cough* lobotomy.
However, my somewhat misplaced fascination with torture inspired me to read on, something I’m thankful for 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.” – GoodreadsĪs someone who was scared of the dark until recently, I was skeptical when starting Escape From Asylum. With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a fellow patient, Ricky needs to escape now.
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.
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. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn’t belong at Brookline. Ricky Desmond has been through this all before. 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. “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.
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