The Sanatorium
Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological
3.5
(14.4K)
Sarah Pearse
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | An instant New York Times bestseller!“An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat.” —Reese Witherspoon“This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all… and twists you’ll never see coming.” —Richard Osman, New York Times bestselling author of The Thursday Murder ClubSarah Pearse's next book, The Retreat, is forthcoming.You won't want to leave. . . until you can't.Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge--there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic.Elin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in. . .
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Author
Sarah Pearse
Pages
400
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2021-02-02
ISBN
0593296672 9780593296677
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"DNF"
Sher Free✌️
"3.5 "
The Lazy Reader
"Honestly thought this book was was too long so I got bored and lost interest by the middle of it :/"
Tram Ly
"A gruesome murder mystery with layers of relationships and hidden truths set in the high Alps. Just added the sequel, The Retreat, to my TBR list "
Jackie Davidson
"I liked this book mostly for the setting and creepy atmosphere. I wish more emphasis was placed on the sanatorium past and the characters (especially protagonist) were a little less 1-D."
Darya 🖤
"*Book ends with SA* The beginning was exciting and gave me hope for the rest of the book. Unfortunately, the rest of the book fell flat. You don’t develop a love for the characters, if anything, the MC is just a 30yr old without communication skills. Worst of all, 20 pages from the end there’s a SA scene to ruin the book. Didn’t hate it until the very end, tolerable but not great beforehand. "
Skye
"I no longer trust Reese’s book selections"
Diane Morello
"This was the perfect fast read with some decent plot twists. I also appreciated the nod to history concerning real life sanitorium situations."
Olivia Huie
"Pretty decent thriller, loved the setting and atmosphere - didn’t love it as much as I wanted to, but worth a read! "
Samantha Leighanne
"I was drawn to this book because it’s described as a very atmospheric read and the setting sounded very interesting. Typically I enjoy novels written from the pov of the detective solving the case, but Elin just didn’t do it for me. At first I took her lack luster abilities at face value, thinking she might just be rusty because she was on leave for an extended time, but then it felt like the author was trying to convince us it was really because of her secretive past related to an incident revolving around water and also from PTSD from an incident on the job that also revolving around water. Naturally so many of the things that went wrong at this resort centered around the pool and spa, where you guessed it, there’s water. I think the author was trying to get us to rally for Elin and be proud that she was getting herself together through the case but it just fell flat for me. The first half of the novel did a great job building suspense, I was very creeped out but eventually it just dissipated to nothing. The reveals were meant to be very shocking but I found myself just kind of shrugging my shoulders at them. I kind of want to see if Elin can be redeemed in the second novel of the series now that she’s back to being a full time detective, but I’m really not sure if I want to bother picking it up. "
Lianna
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