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The Sanctuary by Andrew Hunter Murray

Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.

I really tried with this one. I picked it up multiple times and forced myself to read a few chapters, because I was mildly curious about the plot. But I realised around page 100 that I genuinely didn’t care about Ben or Cara whatsoever, but that I kind of needed to to enjoy reading. It’s such a slow burn (really not an intense thriller as I thought, given it’s Waterstones Thriller of the month June). It takes about 80 pages to even get to the island. I had been hoping for an incredible ending, but as I scrolled through book reviews I realised the ending even fell short, and people who enjoyed this novel mostly liked the first half. The writing style is so descriptive and so slow and it just didn’t work for me. This could’ve been a good short story maybe, but in its current state I really can’t push myself to read through this.