The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse REVIEW

Summary:

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 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 yet realized 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...

My Thoughts:

I FUCKING LOVED THIS BOOK! At first, I thought it was going to be a haunted house sort of thing, but it was so much better than that.

Elin is not your typical protagonist. She hates change and cannot stop grieving over her other brother Sam's death, even though it happened when she was a child. She blocked out the memory of that day for a long time, but it is coming back to her in pieces.

Isaac is...unlikeable, to say the least. He often flaunts Elin's issues whenever she tries to talk to him.

Laure is an intriguing character. I wish we got to see more of her backstory. She knew Elin when they were kids, but Elin cut her off at one point.

Margot's motives make so much sense. One of her family members was killed back when the hotel was a sanatorium.

Lucas is deliberately set up as one of the main suspects, but he was not the killer, nor was he working with them.

Cecile's motive to killing Daniel and attempting to kill Lucas makes a lot of sense. But the others that she killed did not make any sense to her motives or the plot.

My Rating: 5 stars