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A review by laviskrg
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
1.0
Abandoned on a bench in a park to hopefully serve a person with lower expectations because mine were severely unmet. In summary:
- weak, cliched, stupid, uninteresting heroine - check
- boring, devoid of personality or value characters - check
- cliched descriptions (badly written) of a very irrelevant hotel in the super boring mountains - check (oh, and by the way, I absolutely ADORE the mountains in winter or eternally white ones, exclusive hotels, refurbished mansions or hospitals or churches, but this read and felt like any boring house in a lame Romanian village)
- irrelevant deaths - if I don't care about the characters, I don't give a fuck whether they live or die - check
- absolutely abysmal writing - think of that colleague who doesn't quite master the foreign language spoken in the company so they spend 25 minutes of the maximum 15 destined to the entire team overexplaining irrelevant drivel - this is the writing level in this book and omg, it is going to be a series? WHY? - CHECK
I think thrillers are also not my thing since the best are barely 3 stars, 4 if I am buzzed on wine and feeling overly generous. I am tired of the same retarded premise of perfect marriage, but omg, he is a murderer and she is an alcoholic, perfect family but the kids are fucking and psychos, perfect teacher but he makes his students meditate and partake of hyped yet boring rituals in the forest at night. Small premises, incompetent but yet somehow ever-present police, weak, fragile, frightened heroines, soy boy males somehow having the guts to kill. Nah. Not for me.
- weak, cliched, stupid, uninteresting heroine - check
- boring, devoid of personality or value characters - check
- cliched descriptions (badly written) of a very irrelevant hotel in the super boring mountains - check (oh, and by the way, I absolutely ADORE the mountains in winter or eternally white ones, exclusive hotels, refurbished mansions or hospitals or churches, but this read and felt like any boring house in a lame Romanian village)
- irrelevant deaths - if I don't care about the characters, I don't give a fuck whether they live or die - check
- absolutely abysmal writing - think of that colleague who doesn't quite master the foreign language spoken in the company so they spend 25 minutes of the maximum 15 destined to the entire team overexplaining irrelevant drivel - this is the writing level in this book and omg, it is going to be a series? WHY? - CHECK
I think thrillers are also not my thing since the best are barely 3 stars, 4 if I am buzzed on wine and feeling overly generous. I am tired of the same retarded premise of perfect marriage, but omg, he is a murderer and she is an alcoholic, perfect family but the kids are fucking and psychos, perfect teacher but he makes his students meditate and partake of hyped yet boring rituals in the forest at night. Small premises, incompetent but yet somehow ever-present police, weak, fragile, frightened heroines, soy boy males somehow having the guts to kill. Nah. Not for me.