Book Review - The Santorium by Sarah Pearse
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This was a tough one for me. I don't know how to rate it. On the one hand its a very atmospheric thriller with some great description and good dramatic tension. On the other its a not so brilliantly executed mystery with one of the most inept investigators I've ever seen who spends most of the book having her job mansplained to her by her incredibly horrible brother and significant other.
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. But Elin’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancΓ©e, 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 decided there’s something about the hotel that makes her nervous. They wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing. With a 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.
The setting really is marvelous. Elin finds the entire place sterile and horribly frightening. The author's descriptions are excellent. But the mystery itself is kind of eh. Its not necessarily bad its just kind of all out of left field and one of those stories where the reader has no way to make any connections and the solution or reason isn't really arrived at, it just kind of happens.
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