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Beneath the Trap Door #2
The Asylum
"I am Melissa Andrews, a prisoner in this forlorn excuse for a psychiatric treatment center."
Melissa Andrews is scheduled for execution by lethal injection but wakes up in a secluded mental asylum with its own dark secrets.
When her questions are unanswered, she has no choice but to form alliances and infiltrate her captors' barriers. Little does she know that she is at the center of one of the asylum's major plots.
What will she uncover about the institution and herself and will she find a way to escape before it's too late?
Melissa Andrews is scheduled for execution by lethal injection but wakes up in a secluded mental asylum with its own dark secrets.
When her questions are unanswered, she has no choice but to form alliances and infiltrate her captors' barriers. Little does she know that she is at the center of one of the asylum's major plots.
What will she uncover about the institution and herself and will she find a way to escape before it's too late?
298 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 18, 2014
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A.A. Pencil
6 books3 followersA.A. Pencil is a twenty-six year old school nurse residing in Brooklyn, New York. She uses writing as a form of therapy to cope with Lupus, an autoimmune disease highlighted by pain, fatigue and rashes. A portion of sales from her books will be donated to the Lupus Foundation of America.
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May 8, 2014
The Asylum
A. A. Pencil
4 Stars
What an insanely delightful plot. I intensely adored the peculiarly quirky characters of The Asylum.
Melissa Andrews is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. She has had months in jail to prepare herself mentally for her impending doom. She is dimly aware of the cold metal of the table pressing against her skin. Her eyes closes, she feels herself fading away. She is dying.
Strangely, Melissa opens her eyes and she isn't dead, she is in an asylum! She meets all kinds of odd individuals. It quickly becomes very clear to her that she is an outsider and that everybody (staff members as well as fellow patients) is plotting against her. Obsessed with unravelling the grand scheme, Melissa experiments with theories to demonstrate her suspicions.
Turning up the flow of her annoying roommates' drip while she is sleeping, Melissa aims to expose the incompetence of their nurse. Being chained to her bed for bad behavior earlier that day, nobody suspects Melissa of her roommate Megan's death.
Melissa mischievously sneaks around the asylum gathering intel on random persons and events and pieces her bizarre ideas together.
I enjoyed every minute of living inside Melissa's head. At times I believed that there really was a cover up in the asylum, at other times I anxiously worried over her sanity. The Asylum was well worth the time I invested in reading it. The whole book is fast paced and eventful. It is well written and I could imagine the world of The Asylum with vivid clarity.
In short I LOVED IT!
A. A. Pencil
4 Stars
What an insanely delightful plot. I intensely adored the peculiarly quirky characters of The Asylum.
Melissa Andrews is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. She has had months in jail to prepare herself mentally for her impending doom. She is dimly aware of the cold metal of the table pressing against her skin. Her eyes closes, she feels herself fading away. She is dying.
Strangely, Melissa opens her eyes and she isn't dead, she is in an asylum! She meets all kinds of odd individuals. It quickly becomes very clear to her that she is an outsider and that everybody (staff members as well as fellow patients) is plotting against her. Obsessed with unravelling the grand scheme, Melissa experiments with theories to demonstrate her suspicions.
Turning up the flow of her annoying roommates' drip while she is sleeping, Melissa aims to expose the incompetence of their nurse. Being chained to her bed for bad behavior earlier that day, nobody suspects Melissa of her roommate Megan's death.
Melissa mischievously sneaks around the asylum gathering intel on random persons and events and pieces her bizarre ideas together.
I enjoyed every minute of living inside Melissa's head. At times I believed that there really was a cover up in the asylum, at other times I anxiously worried over her sanity. The Asylum was well worth the time I invested in reading it. The whole book is fast paced and eventful. It is well written and I could imagine the world of The Asylum with vivid clarity.
In short I LOVED IT!
May 27, 2014
Wow is my first thought. This is not your typical mental hospital, as you cannot be locked in your bedroom these days or be treated as these patients are...legally. This story twists and turns and keeps you on the edge of your seat. ..and goes back to former memories so that I was thinking things were going to happen and then it went the opposite way. I can't wait to read more!!!
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