A review by merraluuna
The Asylum by Johan Theorin

4.0

I was excited (because I love all the weirdness about Asylums and that genre) but also very skeptical. The book was very easy to get into and was pretty good. It is about Jan who just starts working in a nursery within the asylums' premises. There's a tunnel from the nursery to the asylum so that the kids are able to be in touch with their parent, who is locked up. Jan also has his reasons to be there and to work there, as he has a secret of his own. It's not a chronological written, which more or less means, that you have flashbacks into Jans childhood and the events that happened there. You can start guessing pretty soon why he was so eager in getting the job at this particular place (but will you guess correct?) but yet the author doesn't give you too much so the guessing and speculating continues pretty much all the way to the end of the book, which was very good, because I have read to many book in which reasons/murders/clues/what-ever is way to obvious. The ending really got me - a very nice twist!!!
The writing style was also very nice - I would call this book a real "page-turner" as I simply had to finish it as quickly as possible. The flashbacks didn't annoy me either... I would highly recommend this book to readers that also liked Dean Koontz, Stieg Larsson and Richard Montenari!