Book set in the Tyrol Mountains – Sanctuary by Luca D’Andrea

Submitted: 8th April 2021

Care to take a Sanctuary in the Italian Mountains

Sanctuary by Luca D’Andrea – Marlene Wegener is on the run. She’s taken the jewels from her husband and ran into the Tyrol Mountains. Remote, lost and afraid, she runs for her life as her husband is a gangster and he is not a man to mess with. He is going to come after her. She needs shelter. She is rescued by a recluse and ends up back in his remote cabin. A plan to stay, safe from the world? Or a place from which escape may be impossible?

There’s something, some things dark and dangerous in those woods, something unknown and unpredictable… Then there’s the character they call The Trusted Man. He cannot be called off, he cannot be reasoned with and one way or another he will get the job done….

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Setting: The Italian Tyrol Mountains

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If you go down to the woods today…careful where you run and hide with diamonds, especially if you’ve stolen them from your gangster husband.

Marlene who has done just that has found the ideal place to hide out – the snowy remote Tyrol mountains of Italy. When in danger, a loner who lives in the woods comes to help and she hides out in his remote cabin. It’s not going to be an easy thing to do however, hide from a gangster as she soon finds out…

This is when the story goes into territory I wasn’t expecting. There’s all sorts of Grimm’s Fairy tales types to live in those mountains. Monsters and gremlins and everything in between. There’s whispers of magical realism and dark dark tales of your worst nightmares. A few parts of the storyline I can’t say I understood but there were poppy seeds and pigs involved 😉

It’s a strange read. Quirky in many ways too. I would call it a mash up of several genres and others yet to be invented! The cast of characters are straight out of a circus and whatever you do don’t go into that cellar…

It’s very hard to describe this novel without giving anything away but it’s strange, quirky and quirky some more. It’s not a book that comes together well though and by the end I did feel unsatisfied and ultimately confused.

The setting is great however and I think the descriptions of the landscape and the effects this has on the characters is very well done. There’s a few snippets of life away from the mountains too so you get a good overall picture of the area. I’m just not sure I got what the rest of the novel was trying to say.