"Sometimes the past is better off buried.
Senior year is finally over. After all they’ve been through, Dan, Abby, and Jordan are excited to take one last road trip together, and they’re just not going to think about what will happen when the summer ends. But on their way to visit Jordan’s uncle in New Orleans, the three friends notice that they are apparently being followed.. And Dan starts receiving phone messages from someone he didn’t expect to hear from again—someone who died last Halloween.
As the strange occurrences escalate, Dan is forced to accept that everything that has happened to him in the past year may not be a coincidence, but fate—a fate that ties Dan to a group called the Bone Artists, who have a sinister connection with a notorious killer from the past. Now, Dan’s only hope is that he will make it out of his senior trip alive.
In this finale to the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, found photographs help tell the story of three teens who exist on the line between past and present, genius and insanity."
Goodreads - Catacomb
I fell in love with the Asylum series a little over a month ago. I devoured Asylum and then did the same with Sanctum. I absolutely loved Asylum, but Sanctum wasn't quite as magical in my opinion. Of course I had some very high expectations for Catacomb considering that it was the final book in the series. But before we start talking about my thoughts, I need to go ahead and give you a brief summary in my own words.
The book takes place the summer after Asylum and Sanctum take place, which is also after Dan, Abby, and Jordan's senior year of high school. The three are on their way to help Jordan move to Louisiana to live with his uncle who is going to pay for college. As usual Dan starts experiencing weird things, such as when Micah starts messaging him. Before they all know it Dan is knee deep in researching his parents to find out who they were and how they died, and why Micah keeps messaging him. Of course it can't be simple research because Dan gets tangled up with a group called the Bone Artists. He starts sneaking off to keep Abby and Jordan from being too involved. As usual we find out some important and crucial information, people get hurt, at least one person dies, and then they all live happily ever after trying to adjust and get over what has happened to them.
This book was very predictable. As soon as Dan and the gang met Oliver, I knew that he was still involved with the Bone Artists. He said that he had gotten out, but it couldn't be that simple to get uninvolved with them. I don't think that it ever mentioned Sabrina being involved, but it was clear when a seance was going on that Oliver was still involved in some pretty dark stuff. Another person that I knew was involved was Finnoway. He was a big political figure that had the charming appeal that no one would ever suspect that he was currently the leader of the Bone Artists. It was so predictable. The predictability of this plot and the characters really made me sad. I wanted something that was unusual and strange because that is how the other two books were.
While the book was predictable there were a few things that I really enjoyed. One of them being the use of more updated photos. There were historical photos as usual, but there were also more updated photos with people in modern clothes and masks. I just liked the modern day spin instead of the tons of historical photos that were in the first two books. I also liked that Dan became a victim in this book. It seemed like he was always escaping danger while everyone else got injured or killed from the digging that Dan had done. It was good that his digging and inability to let things go finally caught up to him. It was one of those things that was bound to happen, but it was a matter of when, what would happen, or who would do it.
Madeleine Roux has already said that there will not be any more books in this series. I'm secretly hoping that she is going to wait a few years and will publish another book in this series. I would love for there to be a follow up book where Dan has graduated college. It would be good to see Dan and Abby get married, settle down, and have a little family. Of course there would have to be some crazy twist that pulled him back to Brookline because that's where it all started. It would be an awesome follow-up conclusion book.
This book was a little bit of a let down because of the predictability of it. I give the book 4 stars out of 5. I've already started Escape From Asylum which is the prequel to Asylum. Escape From Asylum takes place when Brookline was a functioning asylum and not serving as dorms. I'm very excited to read this book and I'm hoping that my unanswered questions will finally be answered.
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