Asylum by Madeleine Roux is an unusual book. There is a bit of romance between two main characters, there is suspense, and there is heroism all in one book. This book's genre is horror which made it kind of hard to read alone. The first of the four main characters that there are is Dan Crawford who has been in and out of foster houses. He had just been adopted by a loving family who understands all that he is going through. Dan goes to a therapist to help him with all his faint spells and visions that he has, and thinks that he has control over these things. Next we have Abby Valdez. Abby is social, out going, and she has a love for art. Not to mention she is quite adventurous.She is always unpredictable and ends up dating Dan.Then there's Jordan.Jordan is friends with Abby first then with Dan. He is gay and his parents don't support him so his parents sent him off to a pray the gay away camp but what they don't know is that he is at this program for gifted students. Jordan is the practical one of the of group. Lastly we have Felix who is Dan's roommate. They are all at this summer program for gifted students at the New Hampshire college. But what they don't know yet is that this the dorms that their staying at used to be an old asylum called Brookline. There are some symbols that i found interesting like this little girl in a picture that Abby found and took back to her room. It was a rather creepy photo and she becomes obsessed with it. She keeps drawing it over and over again until she finds out that it was her aunt that she never knew she had named Lucy. Something else I found interesting was this music box with a ballerina on it that Dan found. He found it in the basement of Brookline. From everything that adds up it looks like it belonged to Abby’s aunt Lucy. The first one one that shows up in the book is this old picture that he finds in his dorm when he’s unpacking. It is a picture of a man with his eyes scratched out only to find out later that that was the last warden of the old asylum. Named Daniel Crawford.