Maddie Grunewald

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The plot was a magnetic to me; it drew me in to read it. What I didn’t like about Elin was her selfishness. She mainly focused on what happened to Laure and her relationship with her instead of the first murder. I understand that was her friend, however she wasn’t a priority, the murder was. I’ve read it on in one week and I’ve been saying for 6 days look into the hotel’s past: the sanatorium. She finally looks into the past in the last two days of my reading. It seemed like an amateur cop was doing the investigation. For someone that “had years of experience,” she didn’t look into the past like, I would assume, any cop would do kinda like a background check on someone and when she first examines the first murder, she should have investigated the five digit number in the bracelet. That’s the first clue to investigate the past! It took her 330 pages to figure that out. Wow. My hero. Also, I still don’t understand why Elin would continually tell Lucas the progress of the investigation when she knew that he lied to her the first meeting that they had. If a suspect lied to you in your first meeting then, you wouldn’t trust them so why would you continually tell them your progress? There were obvious signs that Elin should have concluded for herself that she shouldn’t have told nor trusted Lucas for example, what I’ve mentioned before, when he didn’t want her to investigate anymore, and when he followed her to the tunnel. I know he’s not the killer, but he was involved and Elin still shouldn’t have trusted him. I think the author should have sticked to the sanatorium’s past as the original motive because it was original, sexual assault has been used too many times, as a motive, that it’s become a cliche. Sexual assault is a very serious topic to communicate, but I think it’s been used too much in books and movies to where it’s used, as a motive to kill someone, as entertainment. Sexual assault is not entertainment, it’s a tragedy that shouldn’t happen, but it does. It did have me skeptical about every character and it did keep me on the edge of my seat.

The Sanatorium

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The book is way better then this movie! In the book, Darby is a college student and is going back home to visit her mom at the hospital and the snow storm is getting too out of hand to drive so she stops at a rest stop. She eventually finds out that a girl is kidnapped in the van and has to figure out who kidnapped her, why, and how to get her out of their. Similar to the movie but different setting for Darby. The book is way better bc you can read what Darby is actually thinking in that moment like when she finds the kidnapped girl or if she should tell someone that a girl is kidnapped. The book has a great pacing and thrill that kept me reading throughout the night. I was creating adrenaline just from reading the book. The movie on the other hand, the only thing I liked about it was when Darby made a smart as comment to Jade in the rehab center. That’s all I liked about it. It had a few good “keep me on my toes” moments, but that’s it. There were too many gaps where it didn’t make sense like Darby automatically trusting Ash and telling him about the kidnapped girl. If you had read the book, it would have made sense, stupid mistake but it was logical. Another gap was why was the Janitors closet unlocked? Darby, as a patient in a rehab center, could have access to the janitors closet? Now if she hadn’t done that, there wouldn’t be a movie but the good thing is there is a book. Another thing that I didn’t like was the drama between Darby and her family. It seemed like they were trying to make it so dramatic that it can be entertaining, which for me it wasn’t. It was predictable. Just because you can make it dramatic doesn’t mean it’s entertaining; it can be redundant.

No Exit

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