Review: Catacomb by Madeleine Roux

Title: Catacomb (Asylum #3)
Author: Madeleine Roux
Published: September 1st 2015
Date Read: September 19th – 23rd 2016
Read In: English

Sometimes the Past is Better of Buried.

Senior year is finally over. After all they've been through, Dan, Abby, and Jordan are excited to think about what will happen when the summer ends. But on their way to visit Jordan's uncle in New Orleans, the three friends notice that someone appears to be following them. Then Dan starts receiving phone messages from someone he didn't expect to hear fro again – someone who died last Halloween.

As the strange occurrences escalate, Dan is forced to accept that everything that has happened to him in the past year may not be coincidence, but fate – a fate that ties Dan to a group called the Bone Artists, who have a sinister fascination with notorious killers of the past. Now Dan's only hope is that he will make it out of his senior trip alive.

The story was okay, but unnecessary like the second book. I thought Asylum was great on its own, and it would have been better if it was a stand-alone book. It felt a bit too much that all this happened to three people.

Review: Sanctum by Madeleine Roux

Title: Sanctum (Asylum #2)
Author: Madeleine Roux
Published: August 26th 2014
Date Read: September 13th – 18th 2016
Read In: English

The Past Is Back To Haunt Them.

Dan, Abby, and Jordan remain traumatized by the summer they shared in the Brookline asylum. Much as they'd love to move on, someone is determined to keep the terror alive, sending the teens photos of an old-timey carnival, with no note and no name. Finally, Dan receives a list of coordinates pointing to abandoned houses in the town near Brookline, and he is convinced that the only way to end this nightmare once and for all is to return to New Hampshire College and follow the trail.

But when Dan and his friends arrive under the guise of a prospective students' weekend, they discover that the carnival from their photos isn't just real, it's here on campus – it has returned for the first time in many years. And as they sneak away from their undergrad hosts to visit the houses on their list, they find secrets far darker than anything they'd imagined.

This book was still good, even though i didn't like it as much as i liked Asylum. I don't know why it was necessary to write another one. Asylum was good on its own, maybe even better off without another book. But this book wasn't too bad, it just didn't feel necessary to me.

Review: Asylum by Madeleine Roux

Title: Asylum (Asylum #1)
Author: Madeleine Roux
Published: August 20th 2013
Date Read: September 11th – 12th 2016
Read In: English

Once You Get In, There's No Getting Out.

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 it turns out Brookline was no ordinary psych ward. And there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.

If you like Horror, you should try this book. It was a bit different than i thought, but still worth a read. Some parts were really creepy and i enjoyed reading this book.

One Line a Day.

I recently bought a journal called ONE LINE A DAY. You may have heard of it, it's like a calendar/journal you're supposed to write for 5 years. I have something similar already, but it's only a calendar for 2016 and i'm writing a few short sentences every day. I thought it would be a lot better if i had this book, so i just got it. I'm going to start it in 2017.

Review: Daughters unto Devils by Amy Lukavics

Title: Daughters unto Devils
Author: Amy Lukavics
Published: October 8th 2015
Date Read: September 9th
Read In: English

Sometimes I believe the baby will never stop crying.

Sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner fears she is losing her mind. When her family move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, Amanda hopes she can leave her haunting memories behind: of her sickly Ma giving birth to a terribly afflicted baby; of the cabin fever that claimed Amanda's sanity; of the boy she has been meeting in secret...

But the Verners arrive on the prairie to find their new home soaked in blood. So much blood. And Amanda has heard stories – about men becoming unhinged and killing their families, and the land being tainted by wickedness.

Does true evil dwell in the prairie... or within Amanda's soul?

This book – wow! It's rather short and i didn't think i'd like it so much, but i did. I love me some scary stories, and even though i thought we missed the whole story about how Amanda was possessed the year before, but when they moved to the prairie crazy things still happen. I'd recommend this book for fans of scary and bloody stories.

Review: The Widow by Fiona Barton

Title: The Widow 
Author: Fiona Barton
Published: February 16th 2016
Date Read: September 6th – 9th 2016
Read In: German

We've all seen him: the man – the monster – staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime.

But what about her: the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs – the wife who stands by him?

Jean Taylor’s life was blissfully ordinary. Nice house, nice husband. Glen was all she’d ever wanted: her Prince Charming.

Until he became that man accused, that monster on the front page. Jean was married to a man everyone thought capable of unimaginable evil.

But now Glen is dead and she’s alone for the first time, free to tell her story on her own terms. Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows.


When i found out about this book, i wanted to have it so bad. When i first saw it in a bookshop, i had to buy it. And it wasn't on my tbr list for long. It was fun to read, and even though Jean is like the narrator, she still doesn't tell us everything she knows. The timehops where somewhat confusing at the beginning, but that was a better idea than retelling everything.

Review: The Death Cure by James Dashner

Title: The Death Cure (The Maze Runner #3)
Author: James Dashner
Published: October 11th 2011
Date Read: August 29th – September 5th 2016
Read In: German

Thomas knows that Wicked can't be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they've collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It's up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test.

What Wicked doesn't know is that something's happened that no Trial or Variable could have foreseen. Thomas has remembered far more than they think. And he knows that he can't believe a word of what Wicked says.

The time for lies is over. But the truth is more dangerous than Thomas could ever imagine. Will anyone survive the Death Cure?




In this book, we finally get some answers. But i couldn't say i liked how the story ended. Thomas and his friends think they made it, but actually they still don't know everything. I liked this one better than The Scorch Trials, but not as much as The Maze Runner.

September Book Haul.

 Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige (Stealing Snow #1)
 The Asylum Novellas by Madeleine Roux (Asylum #1.5, #2.5, #3.5)
 Escape from Asylum by Madeleine Roux (Asylum #0.5)
 Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #0.5)