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The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse — A “Brilliant to Bollocks-O-Meter” One-Minute Review

22 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Dr. John A. King. This content was uploaded by Dr. John A. King. This is a YouTube one-minute book review titled "The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse — A “Brilliant to Bollocks-O-Meter” One-Minute Review" (created 2026-03-22T16:02:46+00:00). A single speaker delivers a short, positive review of Sarah Pearse's The Sanatorium, calling it a gothic thriller with strong setting and manor/sanatorium description, well-built characters and plot, multiple layered twists, avoidance of common tropes, and ultimately recommending it as worth reading. Thumbnail URL is provided in the metadata.

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Hey, welcome to the 1-minute book review. So this time we've got The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearce. The review. So here we have it. The brilliant— so where does this go? Where is The Sanatorium gonna go? Bloody brilliant. Worth a read. So what I like about it is everything. The setting's really cool. The description's really cool. The way she has the manor set up. The way she describes the sanatorium, the whole thing, very— it says here gothic thriller. So there you go, it's a giveaway. It's just really well done. The building of the character, the building of the story, the threads of the story. It doesn't slip into any tropes. Interesting, several layered twists. And so I think it is worth your time. The Sanitarium, Sarah Pearce.