ASYLUM Book Review

Asylum¹ (book 1 in The Afterlife Investigation trilogy) by Ambrose Ibsen, audiobook, 6h 42m

Synopsis from Audible: What lurks within Chaythe Asylum? College professor Stephen Barlow needs cash. Badly. When a student asks him to head a new campus organization that centers around paranormal research, he puts his skepticism aside, and signs on in the hopes of scoring a fat bonus.

Enter Chaythe Asylum - a long-shuttered and controversial institution where patients were allegedly subjected to unethical experiments. Stephen deems the old building, closed in 1989 after a series of grisly murders, as good a place as any to explore the possibility of the supernatural, and arranges to take a tour with his students. But it turns out that the asylum is not as abandoned as it seems. There is something sinister in the building. It has watched and waited for nearly three decades, and when Stephen and his students enter, they find themselves at the center of a nightmare 28 years in the making.

BOOK REVIEW: I have definitely found one of my new favorite authors. This is the second series I've started from Ambrose Ibsen and I have no complaints! Since listening to it, I do find the description to be incorrect. It was not a series of murders, it was a mass murder on a single night. He's also the head of a paranormal research club so it wasn't a tour it was an investigation. Semantics right?

My rating is for the audiobook. I give this a 4.75 out of 5 stars. The narrator was great. The story line was fantastic. At one point I was getting the plot of this book confused with I Have Some Questions For You only because they both take place on school campuses. That's what I get for attempting to read and/or listen to too many books at the same time! I can't wait to dive into the next book soon!

4.75/5 Stars

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