Danna’s Reviews > The Sanatorium > Status Update

- after their affair, Laure was onto Lucas's bribery and hushing of the hotel's past and meant to publish it. Cecile wanted to groom her, too, sending her the psychiatric ward records, but she failed - Laure was determined to stay out of it. So Cecile got mad again, colored her complicit and so deserving to die.

- Cecile has started by killing her rapist (Daniel), then Adele, the girlfriend at the time of the one who found Daniel's body and was offered a high paying job at the hotel as bribery. Cecile viewed her as complicit.
Margot, a hotel employee, had a great grandmother thrown into the sanatorium, her family's been haunted by this event and so it was easy fueling the hate within her, being a psychotic depressed person.

So Cecile, hotel manager, was against the hotel being built in place of the sanatorium where women were stripped of their bodily autonomy in the 1920s and condemned to horrible treatments, but the owner (her bro) and architect (her rapist) disagreed because it'd been a long time ago. Cecile took it personally because she felt the sanatorium directly connects to her own rape, as both perpetutaing violence agnst women.

Compulsively readable thanks to short chapters made up of short paragraphs made up of short sentences. Each element seemingly ending with a cliffhanger. Makes for a quick and fun read but lacking in substance, the only thing to be picked at is the dialogues. I wish it was expanded a bit more and instead of a thriller it'd be a horror novel, but oh well.

It makes absolutely no sense for Lucas to be the murderer. Why would he tarnish the reputation and profitability of his own hotel?

Okay, a big reveal about Sam's death in chapter 76. Isaac tells Elin she'd witnessed Sam fall into the pool, hitting his head and dying of the brain injury. She had watched him at th time, so everyone assumes she's to blame - but she was only 12. Why hasn't her parents been to blame for leaving a bunch of children near a water source with no adult supervision?The reveal ended so quickly I'm sensing there's more to it

Elin and Isaac are having a supportive, honest sibling moment. Margot acted like the killer, so that's a surprise. The hotel's past as a sanatorium is yet to be properly digged into, but there are some cluea leading that way, so that's exciting. Is the novel's purpose exploring the aibling relationship and Elin's character?

- She should've clearly communicated that his behavior is hurtful and unacceptable and have been 'the bigger person'.