The Asylum: THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER

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Asylum is a New York Times bestselling young adult horror novel series by Madeleine Roux. [1] The series is composed of four novels, Asylum, Sanctum, Catacomb, and Escape from Asylum and three novellas: The Scarlets, The Bone Artists, and The Warden. Avevo buone aspettative per questo romanzo. Avevo sentito parlare bene di McGrath, del suo stile e delle sue storie. E questa storia sembrava promettere bene, almeno a giudicare dalla quarta di copertina e, perchè no, dal primo centinaio di pagine. Purtroppo l'impressione era destinata a mutare molto presto. Psychiatrist Peter Cleave tells a supposedly sordid tale of a former patient, love affairs gone terribly wrong, sexual obsession and madness but alas he’s such a boring fellow the story has no emotional appeal, no sense of drama, and no interesting tidbits to savor and drool over. He skims over the good stuff and me, being the fool I am, continued to read waiting for my interest to become engaged and hoping to feel something for these screwed up people. Alas, I remain a fool. I studied psychology, I’ve been a social worker for the past 10 years. I know what grooming looks like, and Stella was being groomed by Edgar. He was emotionally abusive, and then later physically abusive. This was a relationship characterised by violence, and Stella was the victim. However, at times she is treated like she is responsible for Edgar’s actions. At one time the protagonist even asks why Stella didn’t see it and just leave? Seriously?! This review is going to be long enough, so I won’t go into the specifics around family violence…

Forse Follia lascia l’amaro in bocca perché tutti pagano le conseguenze dei loro comportamenti, delle loro mancanze e delle loro ossessioni e purtroppo, a farne maggiormente le spese è l’unico innocente di questo libro: Charlie, figlio di Stella e Max; vittima delle costanti ripicche e del costante disinteresse dei suoi genitori. Avrei voluto sentire la febbre forse... una febbre che viene raccontata magistralmente (questo è innegabile) ma che sulla pelle non si sente davvero. Cleave is narrating the novel, yes, but he is doing so after discussions with Stella, after something has apparently gone badly wrong, and the impending sense of doom only adds to the novel's complexity. Not that Asylum is a mystery. It isn't. Edgar murdered his wife. He escapes from the asylum. Stella goes to him. Nothing surprising here. When Edgar begins exhibiting erratic behavior, though, she runs. However, the story doesn't take the reader into the places you'd think it would. Stella is not repentant. Instead, she feels torn from her lover and sorrowful that she ever suspected his behavior. Willing, even after knowing the full extent of his crime, to go to him and be with him, and Cleave notes this: Edgar Stark is Cleave's patient, and Edgar's intelligence fascinates the doctor. Edgar murdered his wife and brutalized her body after suspecting her of multiple infidelities for many years. Edgar feels completely justified in his actions, and Cleave counts Edgar one of his more interesting patients because of this. It is only when Cleave observes subtle changes in Stella that he suspects the impossible. When Edgar escapes from the facility, Max and Stella both come under scrutiny, leading to a chain of events that is both disturbing and engrossing.The book comprises four free-standing essays On the Characteristics of Total Institutions, The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, The Underlife of a Public Institution and The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization.

Abby Valdez: A girl Dan's age who is studying Art at the New Hampshire College Prep for the summer. She's described as being "petite, with large brown eyes and creamy olive skin". [3] She is Dan's love interest. And then Stella’s treating psychologist wants to marry her when her treatment is done? Perhaps if he kept his mind out of his own pants and actually concentrated on Stella he wouldn’t have been too late in the end. Stella obviously needs help, but all the men in this book are trying so hard to either get in her pants or contribute to her misery, she doesn’t get what she ultimately needs. And she must submit to them, even if it's not what she wants. This leads me to my next point.......... At root, I suppose, in spite of everything she loved him, or told herself she did, and women are stubborn in this regard. She had made her choice, she had gone to him willingly, and it was unthinkable to run home because he was ill and his illness robbed him of responsibility. What did surprise me was that she could ignore the proliferating signals that an act of violence was imminent.

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Follia parla di un amore oscuro, passionale e violento; un sentimento deleterio, perturbante e folle. Jordan: A guy Abby and Dan's age who Abby meets on the ride to campus. He's described as having "broody hair and broody face and cool, broody clothes". [4] Insomma, un modo simpatico per associare, ad ogni malanno, un libro da leggere. Con l’indicazione di “Piccola farmacia letteraria” di libri ce n’erano diversi, ma io volevo “Follia” e non certo perché fumo, ma perché il titolo girava nella mia mente da un bel pezzo.