Paperback, 336 pages
Read: Nov. 13 - 14
Rating: 2.5/5
Genres: Paranormal, Suspense, Mystery, Young Adult
Summery: 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.
Review: This story starts out with Dan Crawford in a taxi on his way to the New Hampshire College Prep program, which used to be Brookline Asylum. Well, there were good parts of this and parts I really didn't care about. First the good, the little parts of back story and memories that you get through out the book really held my interests, they were sprinkled through out enough that I had enough interest to keep reading through the dull parts. I liked the "adventures" to the old closed off wing and basement as well. Now for the rest, I could not get myself to care about the characters or there relationships to each other, the only characters I had a mild interest in were Jordan, and Yi who was only in the book for a total of probably one and a half to two pages altogether. There is of course a romance of some sorts (because it is a young adult book, there has to be a romance), The romance is small, but it didn't fit, the way the characters were described and the way their personalities were they ended up having no chemistry. Also the way the characters are written they come off as being about 14 years old, rather than the 17 they're supposed to be. The parts with the characters interacting and doing regular things together were very dull and held no interest for me. I was reading those parts without really having it register. Thankfully there were enough of the good parts to keep me reading to the end, but there weren't really enough to make me want to read the sequel because of the uninteresting characters and their relationships with each other. The annoying thing for me is that the ending of this book sets up for a sequel, and I like knowing what happens all the way to the end of the book/series, so while I don't care about the main part of the book/series (the characters) I know it is going to drive me a little nuts wondering about the paranormal part of the book/series. I may just end up trying to find out about the spoilers and how it ends on the internet, instead of trying to talk myself into reading the sequel and waiting for the third to come out.
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