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Recently I read Asylum by Madeleine Roux. It follows a boy named Dan, who is attending a pre-college program at a local college. This school was very well known for it's amazing teachers, whom all the students loved. Once there he finds out the old dorms were not being used instead they would be living in a former Insane Asylum, that had been shutdown for their methods of treatment. He quickly makes friends with Abby, an artist, and Jordan, a math prodigy. In the first couple nights they sneak into an office, in which they find disturbing photographs of former patients. Soon they begin receiving strange notes. Then there's a string of murders similar to those of a famous serial killer whom once stayed there. 

I enjoyed this book, I thought it was too easy at times, but the plot was beautifully constructed and I found few plot holes when reading it. But I also felt it had weak character development at times, and the characters were incredibly dependent on each other and seemed to be unusually uneducated in the basic rules of the world and being actual good human beings, for their age.