Christine's Book Corner

Let your mind wander and go crazy once you enter Asylum , a fantasy novel by Madeline Roux. Daniel Crawford is a 16-year-old high school student who is spending the summer in New Hampshire to attend a college prep program at New Hampshire College.  While the regular dorms are being renovated, students of this program are put up in Brookline, a former Asylum that holds many secrets.  Dan soon makes friends with Abby and Jordan while attending the program and together, they decide to go against campus rules and explore the hidden, forbidden ward of the building to find out what secrets it holds.  Is there a time when secrets should be kept quiet?  What is it about Brookline that people from the area don't want others to find out?  Roux takes you on an adventure of a lifetime with Dan and his friends as we spend the five weeks with them as they attend college prep in Brookline. Roux really brought these characters to life and you couldn't help but rela...

Don't feel guilty because you didn't go truly mad while reading Truly Madly Guilty , a contemporary fiction book by Liane Moriarty. One sunny day, six adults, three young children, and one small dog gather at Tiffany and Vid's house for a BBQ.  One ordinary day, one secret that haunts each of them for the weeks that follow.  Sam and Clementine's marriage is tested.  Oliver's wife, Erika, has a secret she'd been hiding for awhile.  Tiffany and Vid are the owners of the house where the BBQ was held.  What could possibly go wrong when everyone is gathered in a backyard enjoying the day?  In Moriarty's book, the basis of relationships is tested.  With everyone carrying a heavy burden of guilt, secrets are going to come out and harbored feelings released.   This was the first book I read from Moriarty, but the summary looked good and I was looking forward to reading when my copy came in the library.  I thought the secret everyone...

The Graveyard Apartment  by Mariko Koike centers around a young married couple who move into the news apartment with their small child and pet dog.  The apartment is everything a person could want, close to shopping centers and a school.  Cheap price for such a spacious apartment, but there is one catch; it's built with a graveyard right outside.  Not long after the move in, weird and creepy things begin to happen to the family and the few other residents who live in the apartment.  One by one, the other tenants begin to move out until this family is the only one left with whoever or whatever it is that is haunting the building. I rated this book 4 out of 5  stars.  It was a quick read and held my interested the entire time.  I'm always up for a good horror story and that is what this was, a horror tale.  I kept wanting to find out what exactly it was that was causing the creepiness to the tenants of the building.  One would nat...