Escape from Asylum by Madeline Roux
I am so glad I stumbled across the first book in this series a couple of years ago! If I hadn't I would not have had the opportunity to read five (four, and one of novellas) books that revolve around an asylum. Of all of the books in this series, this one was my favorite.
Being a prequel, this one has nothing to do with Dan, Abby and Jordan, and I was so ok with that. I mean, what could they have done with that as a prequel anyway? Tell about their lives before they came to Brookline that summer? I don't know that that would have been worth reading. Thankfully, this takes place roughly fifty years prior to the events in the original trilogy.
Ricky is brought to Brookline by his mother and stepfather because they can't deal with him anymore. He is angry (he attacked his stepfather), and *gasp!* had a relationship with a boy. Obviously (eye roll here), this is enough to put a person in a mental facility. While there, Ricky meets Kay, a transgendered teen, who may never get out unless she starts acting like "her true self."
Ricky actually doesn't have it as bad as some of the other patients at Brookline because the warden has bigger plans for Ricky. Plans that include "curing" him without lobotomizing him or shock therapy. In theory, this sounds good, but every other time the warden has tried this, patients have died, including Ricky's biological father.
Will Ricky become a pawn of the warden's? Will he ever get out of this place? Read this book and find out.
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