Goodreads Summary: 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...
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...
Genre Listing: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Horror, Crime
Goodreads Rating: 3.37 stars with over 145,000 ratings
Goodreads Challenge: 25/30 ( I will likely update it from 30 at some point.)
2023 Reading Challenge: #27 Read a book by an author who shares a first or last name with one of your friends (the entire challenge can be found here)
Book Review:
Hello, Readers! Please do not get used to me doing two posts in a day. I read a lot while I was off work/traveling and am trying to catch up before I forget things. This post will catch me up. I picked up The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse a while ago and just now got around to reading it. It was a great fit for #27, as I have a lot of Sarah (or Sara) in my life.
I set myself up for disappointment with this book. Somehow I went into this book thinking it would be more of a haunted situation, and it was definitely not. I spent the entire book wondering when the ghosts would appear, only to learn there were no ghosts. There were only some angry Europeans with an agenda.
I found Elin, Will, and Issac hard to relate to as characters. They all seemed emotionless, given the situation they found themselves in at the hotel. When deaths start happening, it's up to Elin to solve them as the only pseudo-law enforcement still there when the storm hits. I felt like her "solving" the case was just accusing everyone still left at the hotel by jumping to conclusions. The motive also really didn't make sense. While it was a horrible situation, it was a bunch of loose connections forced into a hidden agenda that didn't fit the rest of the story. There was no natural build-up to it that allowed for it to make sense. It just felt like an afterthought to the rest of the story.
This definitely wasn't my cup of tea for horror/mystery. It may be because I got myself too psyched up for it to be a haunted sanatorium, but it all just felt forced together and wasn't that entertaining. I'm sure some will like it since it has over 3 stars, but I prefer a little more story than just solving by accusing everyone.
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