People who have read Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl tend to have opinions about Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. And I mean OPINIONS. Loved the first half, hated the second. Loved her, hated him. Can’t believe they cast Ben Affleck in the movie. And so on. Personally, I was a fan. Flynn’s approach to the mystery genre was weird and […]
I am one of the rare breed who didn’t lose their mind over Gone Girl. Let me put that a different way, I nearly lost my mind over everyone else losing their minds over Gone Girl when it really isn’t much good (you can read my review here), so I started Sharp Objects with some […]
This was my second Gillian Flynn novel after devouring Gone Girl about a month ago. While this story didn’t capture me quite as strongly, it was still a fantastic read. Tightly plotted, great characters and a pervasive sense of dread throughout. Camille Preaker is a junior reporter for a Chicago newspaper who is sent back […]
This is a terrible book and no one should ever read it. How’s that for a review? You want more? Fine. Sharp Objects is a formless blob of a story that fails as both a mystery and as a thriller, and it’s unlikable protagonist is such a milquetoast nothing of a personality that she renders […]
I was one of the few people who read Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl and didn’t love it. Well, that’s not quite true. I loved the novel until page 412 and then …. seriously? But I liked it enough to want to read more Gillian Flynn. So I’m starting with her first novel, Sharp Objects. […]
By now, everyone has heard about Gillian Flynn and Gone Girl. Most of us have read it, and for the most part, the reviews have been positive. I saw Sharp Objects, one of her earlier books, at the library last week, and picked it up knowing nothing about it — other than it was written […]
With a quote on the front reading, “keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction,” I wasn’t sure what I was in for, but I knew it was going to be jacked up. I got a bit of a better picture when I peeked inside the cover, seeing, “I promise you […]
Sharp Objects is a mystery/thriller told from the perspective of a narrator that is not unreliable so much as untethered. This is a dark and at times brutal book that offers little light and hope and puts the reader in the shoes of a character who starts off broken and proceeds to shatter as the […]
No, I haven’t read Gone Girl. Not yet, anyway. However I have just read and reviewed Flynn’s debut, which deals with some gone girls of its own. It’s dark, it’s twisted, it’s farking brilliant. The full review is here. Check it out! 🙂
On its own, Dark Places is probably a very good book. But if you have read Gillian Flynn’s other novels, Sharp Objects and Gone Girl, Dark Places will seem familiar, derivative. Dark Places may not be the page turner that Gone Girl was, but I still really like the way Flynn composes her novels. Her […]
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