Review: Ah, the spooky asylum.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2012
The second book in the series establishes the pattern: once-dead, now-living man Matt travels around, trying to find answers about his condition and his new ability to see the evil in other people, while being drawn into creepy crap wherever he goes. (Also established in the pattern: there's usually one sex scene, which in this case is a flashback to his dead wife.) In this installment, in search of answers from another person who was listed in a psychology text as having had a similar condition, Matt gets embroiled in bizarre demon worship in a secluded psych facility, which is exactly one level worse than the stuff you always suspect goes on in psych facilities.Being a short and quick read, it doesn't take the time to answer questions it raises about how exactly a facility in a heavily regulated industry could go to hell'n'gone without anyone noticing (there's not even the kind of lampshading that makes, say, Stephen King's original "Children of the Corn" short story work), but it's a quick and visceral adventure. Not in itself a reason to get into the series, but an acceptable installment.