These exquisitely detailed designs are printed on one side only to allow you to easily remove the pages for displaying your art. The circular mandala style is designed to stimulate your creative brain whilst calming those voices in your head when they get just a bit too loud.

**BONUS!!!** If you are a fan of coloring books, Emilie Autumn created one!Д®nter the world of the Asylum with 23 original illustrations hand-drawn by Emilie Autumn herself, just waiting for YOU to bring them to life with color!Дevotees of Emilie AutumnвЂ™s bestselling gothic fantasy novel, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, will recognize the iconography of the Asylum world, from keys, gears, and clocks to the famous spiked gates, teapots, corsets, striped stockings, and, of course, rats!

Overall, this was a great read a little bit of creepy, a little bit of history, a little bit of crazy and it all came together into an awesome story! Not a great book for teens, but really great for more mature audiences! ? Other than that, I loved the story, I found it interesting and engaging and it stayed in my head long after I put the book down. There were times that I felt a little lost. ThatвЂ™s the only reason I gave this book 4 stars. I felt like I missed a lot of details that would have been helpful, but IвЂ™m too shallow to get them. Emily (with a y) is a fascinating character that I wish I could learn more about. And apparently this book is biographical so Emilie Autumn the author has dealt with these very problems. I got this book for Christmas and I was immediately drawn to the cover! Of course, IвЂ™m all about asylums so thereвЂ™s that, and the cover art is gorgeous! It did start out a little slow, but when it got going, boy howdy did it get going! I love the way that she broke down the thoughts in EmilieвЂ™s head to try to capture the issues of mental health. The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls blurs harsh reality and magical historical fantasy whilst issuing a scathing critique of societyвЂ™s treatment of women and the mental health care industryвЂ™s treatment of its patients, showing in the process that little has changed throughout the ages. But when Emilie opens her notebook to find a desperate letter from a young woman imprisoned within an insane asylum in Victorian England, and bearing her own name and description, a portal to another world is blasted wide open.ДЄs these letters from the past continue to appear, Emilie escapes further into this mysterious alternate reality where sisterhoods are formed, romance between female inmates blossoms, striped wallpaper writhes with ghosts, and highly intellectual rats speak the QueenвЂ™s English.Д«ut is it real? Or is Emilie truly as mad as she is constantly told she is? Sharp grows more predatory by the day, Emilie begins a secret diary to document her terrifying experience, and to maintain her sanity in this environment that could surely drive anyone mad. Sharp, head of the hospitalвЂ™s psychiatry department. Treated as a criminal, heavily medicated, and stripped of all freedoms, Emilie is denied communication with the outside world, and falls prey to the unwelcome attentions of Dr. Upon being discovered, Emilie is revived and immediately incarcerated in a maximum-security psych ward, despite her protestations that she is not crazy, and can provide valid reasons for her actions if someone would only listen. Such is the stark confession launching the harrowing scene that begins The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls as Emilie Autumn, a young musician on the verge of a bright career, attempts suicide by overdosing on the antipsychotics prescribed to treat her bipolar disorder.

Two young women, living centuries apart, both accused of madness, communicate across time to fight a common enemyвЂ¦ their doctors.

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