The Sanatorium: Reese's Book Club (a Novel)

by Sarah Pearse

Book Overview

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK An instant New York Times bestseller

A page-turning thriller from the author of The Retreat.

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593296699
• ISBN13: 9780593296691
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Tedious Versus Thrilling

The characters are not fully developed, and in lieu of suspense, verbose misdirection and unending tricks on the reader dominate. A garbled premise, repetitive obtuse flashbacks, awkward and disconnected tentacles of plot for further complexity that add limited suspense--- I was filled with anticipation to read this book. Very disappointing.

You think something big will come, but it never does!

While the characters in the book were nonsensical and the setting was poorly described, I kept reading because there was a mystery and I wanted answers. Sadly, the book ends without pulling together events in the story. I felt like I wasted time reading it. The characters are completely unrelatable, which is unfortunate. One second, the main character is telling us how creepy her brother is and how she feels like he’s a stranger, and the next second she’s comforting him and stroking his arm. It’s so bizarre. I think the author gave up at the end and assumed readers forgot about details in the plot that never get addressed or explained.