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The Sanatorium
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Reese's Book Club Pick | A New York Times best seller!
“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 Club)
Sarah 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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- Alexandra
- 2021-05-27
weak storyline
The narrator was great, book was blah at best. I struggled to get into it and it was suspenseful to begin, then just become dull after a while.
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- KAT M K
- 2021-05-04
A bit too predictable
Listened to this book because it was a Book Club Pick. Sorry, but I struggled to finish it. Felt it just went on and on and just ended up being a bit too predictable and cliché. Even the main character felt annoying to me. I know it was not a true story but still I found it hard hearing the descriptions of multilation and torture. Not on a level with Agatha Christie.
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- Li Van Keulen
- 2021-04-08
couldn't stop listening
loved the setting for this story. could relate to the characters. slightly creepy and slowly who dun-it. liked this book alot.
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- karen hickey
- 2021-02-24
Light read.
Great setting however historical information was weak.
For a mystery there were too many holes and the character development was lacking.
There was no real surprises at the end... I had guessed the whodunit half way through.
Considering it was a Reese pick I was disappointed.
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- Jenni
- 2021-03-19
Great story - performance ok
In fairness there are few narrators that don’t take some acclimating to. Usually it is voices of the opposite sex or a particular character’s voice. Having said that, it would be hard to call this narrator’s American accent anything but amateurish. As a Canadian, I didn’t take it personally:) it was distracting though. Other than that the performance was lovely and the story was both clever and well written. I enjoyed it very much
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-08-23
Loved it!!!
The storyline was so amazing! I never knew what was coming next and was so eager to keep listening. Elizabeth Knowelden’s performance was great, I listened with ease and enjoyed every second of this book. I highly recommend!
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- Samantha
- 2024-03-28
Took long to build
Performer was good, but hated how she pronounced Margot’s name as “Mar-got” when it’s “Mar-go.” Story was really not captivating, and really struggled to get through it. Usually Reese’s book club is good to me, this one wasn’t the one for me.
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- Shirley Schwartz
- 2021-02-28
Performance was great, story not so much.
My first audible book, and I must say I enjoyed the format, and for a dark and creepy book, it was perfect. The story itself was good for about the first half, and then it started to fall apart. The book is much too long so it loses momentum considerably until i'm thinking "figure this out already." I did skip a bit. The ending was a disappointment. After all the build-up it was totally no surprise. I didn't care for the protagonist or any of the characters for that matter. I will try another book in this format because I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
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- Kamryn
- 2021-02-27
Couldn't stop listening!
The story was well written with details that kept me interested. I wasn't able to predict what was happening which made the story ever changing and kept me on edge to learn what was going to happen.
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- Sherry W.
- 2021-02-23
Well read, but main character development was weak
The premise of the story was interesting; however, the development and decision making of the main character was irrational and contradictory at times - it made it difficult to enjoy listening to the character. Also - there were some were some weaknesses in the plot - some leaps and bounds were made to bridge conclusions. Overall, it was a decent read.
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