Review: Family Matters

The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters

The Asylum Confession Files #2

by Jack Steen

They arrive alive. They leave dead.

But first, they give me their confessions and this time – it’s all about FAMILY.

Inside this book are 4 DeathBed Confessions that relate to family issues:

Patient 424 is a father who just wanted to protect his little girl.

Patient 1001 is a pig farmer who never should have had children.

Patient 523 wants you to believe he’s the brother of a mob boss.

Patient 983 would argue she should receive the Mother of the Year award.

WHO AM I? My name is Jack Steen and for those who arrive on my ‘death’ ward at the Asylum, I’m the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at the Asylum for the Criminally Insane.

Most of my patients are serial killers and mass murderers and they know me as the Angel of Death.

When they come onto my floor, I offer a deal: tell me their story, their ‘untold’ story that hasn’t been read about in the news, sensationalized by media or cataloged in a ridiculous number of academic papers. I want the real story – the one they haven’t old anyone. Some of these killers have never confessed to their crimes, some kept certain information to themselves…those are the stories I want.

If they give them to me, I’ll make their death…easier. They’re already dying, that’s why they’re now my patients. If they play nice, I can make their death less painful. But only if they play nice and tell me their confessions.

The majority of these killers are expert manipulators. I realize they could be playing me and messing with my head. It’s a chance I’m willing to take.

And now…they might just be playing with yours too.

Fans of Stephen King, Joe Hill and like to read books like The Bird Box, The Haunting and can’t get enough stories about serial killers are going to enjoy reading the deathbed confessions from The Asylum.

WARNING: There is swearing in this book. And some stories might be a trigger for something you have a hard time handling.

But, these are the confessions of serial killers, mass murderers and such, so what do you expect?

REVIEW

4 out of 5

Great collection of stories, and I flew through fairly quickly. They’re engaging and unique, and true crime lovers will love this crime confession fiction. Again, this could use at minimum a quick run through a free grammar and spell checker, there are some glaring spelling mistakes stopping it from five stars. I don’t know if I’d call these chilling, but they’re fascinating all the same. I don’t know how I feel about all the patients. I did kind of pity Mother. The system that should have helped her wasn’t in place, and she still might have fallen through the cracks. All the confessions are absolutely believable if you watch too much ID.

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