The Bookworm says... YES (if you like scary things)! Asylum by Madeleine Roux was an excellent book, and a thriller to top it off! I am a huge fan of scary things, so this was an upside for me, but it could also be a downside. If the cover creeps you out, I would advise you not to look any farther. Sixteen year old Daniel Crawford is going to a summer college prep program at New Hampshire College Prep, or as referred to by the locals NHCP. But, before beginning the program Dan received a letter saying that the dorms were under construction, and college prep students would be staying in the newly renovated Brookline Phsyciatric Hospital dorms. This would be enough to make a sane person shaken, but not driven Daniel Crawford. Upon arrival, Daniel meets two people named Abby and Jordan. They become friends instantly. When Daniel is shown to his dorm room, he finds a picture of a man wearing glasses, but the problem seems to be that his eyes had been scratched out rather brutally in pen. This rattles Dans bones. That night, Jordan, Dan, and Abby begin exploring the locked up hallways of the asylum. They find more disturbing photos, and one particularly gory photograph of a young girl. They continue to explore, and Dan begins recieiving strange notes. One night as they sneak up from the cellar, they realize they have walked straight into a crime scene, and someone has been attacked. More attacks, more strange notes, mysterious texts, and hidden relations. As the students dig deeper into the asylum than they should, behavior begins to waver and ancestry starts to show between the students and patients. There are some secrets meant to stay buried, and some doors meant to stay locked. It seems the only way to stay sane is to get out of the place whose very purpose is to make people sane. Asylum was an excellent book, full of haunting photos from real life asylums. This is a must read for all horror lovers, also for lovers of Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.