Book Review: The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
My 💭:
I wanted to read this book because there used to be a tuberculosis sanatorium here in the 1900’s. When I was in high school we took a trip to it as well. From the moment I started this story to the very end I was hooked. It’s been a long time since I actually stayed up late to read a book because I HAD to know what was going to happen.
This book had some twists that I didn’t see coming and that ending was something else. I can’t believe the author would do that me at all! Ugh and I mean that in a good way. I do wish there was a point of view for the villain. The pacing of the story was steady and I loved that the chapters were on the shorter side. When they are really long, I lose interest fast. I’m counting down the days until Pearse next book comes out.
Genre: Gothic Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
About the Book:
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