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Description
Ashleigh and her little family of misfits are on the run, searching for a new home where they can rest and finally get clean. The police hot on their heels, they flee to the abandoned asylum at the top of the mountain, thinking it’s the perfect starting point for their long road to recovery. They’re ready for this. They long for their new life. The asylum is in disrepair with no running water or electricity. It does provide shelter, but maybe they are not alone in seeking it. If only they’d considered that the darkness they had run to might be even more shadowed than the one they were running from.
Summary
One of my recent reads was The Asylum, a dark fiction novella by US author Sarah Hans.
Review
Hans crafts a suite of characters with depth and detail that brings the story to fruition. The Asylum deals with some dark themes often overlooked or subdued in many other works where Hans pulls no punches in the struggles of drug addiction, crime and domestic abuse which is the stark reality of the foundation if this novella. A dark psychological fiction that delves into the hidden secrets and motivations of characters as they struggle to escape the world which has closed around them, limiting opportunities and forcing them deeper into the labarythine depths of the past and present. The claustrophobic atmosphere that Hans creates is as solid as the walls of the abandoned asylum in which they seek refuge.
Conclusion
A well-written dark fiction not for the faint of heart that is a good modern gothic and psychological horror.
**This is my personal opinion and does not reflect any judging decisions **
Leanbh Pearson 