Review: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Published: September 2006

Publisher: Broadway Books

Format: audiobook via Overdrive

Rating: 4/5

Synopsis

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.

My Thoughts

Camille returns home after years of being away to cover a string of murders in her hometown. While there she returns to her childhood home to her mother who she hasn’t had the best relationship with and a sister she doesn’t really know. Camille still longs for her other sister who died and she accuses her mother of killing her. The relationship between these two is so odd and creepy and once we find out why they are this way with each other I definitely felt sorry for Camille and I understood why Camille did the things she did to herself. During her time there still meets some very interesting people and slowly tries to figure out who has been killing these young girls and while she has her suspicions the killer might be closer than she ever realizes.

I’m a huge fan of Gillian Flynn I love that her stories slowly unfold and how every second you think you have it figured it but no sooner than that happens your theory is shot down. The way she weaves a story together is so flawless not to mention she does gritty like nobody’s business. Everyone in this story has so many flaws and it seems like everyone is a victim here that you can’t help but feel sorry for them. However, some of those same people are so evil and sick that you can’t believe what you are reading. This is another winner from Gillian Flynn and I can’t for her next book.

Review: The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

Published: November 3, 2015

Publisher: Crown

Format: via Overdrive

Rating: 4/5

Synopsis

A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan's terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan's teenage stepson, doesn't help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.

My Thoughts

This was one creepy and outrageous read that had me guessing until the very end and even then I wasn’t sure what was true and what wasn’t. These two women meet when one is conning her into believing she is a psychic who can clean her home of evilness. We soon learn that maybe this home is indeed possessed and she soon realizes she is in over her head. We meet Susan’s stepson who is pure evil and will do anything to get rid of her.

Now what happens next is when things get weird and I didn’t know what was what. You see we find out the real reason how these two women are connected…in a way. Soon the stepson pits these two women against each other so you don’t know what is true. Miles is rude and crude and definitely scary beyond words, and he wants the younger girl to take him with her or else he will call the cops on her. This read was weird beyond everything but in a crazy good way. You see these two are cut from the same cloth because they are both crazy and have this odd and sinister way about them. It’s a short read and people either like this read or they don’t there is no middle ground but I liked it. You have to take Gillian Flynn’s work for what it is. It's usually dark, twisted and a little sick but that what I like about her work. This is one read that will take you for one crazy and odd ride, I for one was definitely intrigued by it.