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Wow. I seriously just read this book in four days. Four. I don't read books in four days. A very twisted, psychological thriller, murder mystery all in modern time. This chick is messed up. If you liked Gone Girl, I would recommend this book. If you found that book a little hard to digest, skip this one. I am obviously a sick person, as I literally could not stop reading this book. Freaky freak stuff. Loved it. Bad and boring. I suspected the mother had something to do with it all along, so the twist with Amma was unexpected. The book was slow and repetitive when it came to Camille's self-harm, which I guess it should be if that's what the book is named after, but it was too much in my opinion, and not as interesting or necessary as other details. One of the bleakest, most shocking books I've read for some time. Brilliantly done. Is contained in
Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings. No library descriptions found. |
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Preaker, a somewhat less than brilliant reporter on a second-class Chicago daily, is sent to her suitably parochial Missouri hometown where the murder of two young girls in less than nine months has townspeople nervous and law enforcement in over their heads. Preaker’s editor sees an overlooked story that just might vault his struggling paper into prominence, and thinks the young woman’s local connections will help her dig out the details of the investigation. What the editor doesn’t understand, and what Preaker is too emotionally fragile to tell him, is that she has been estranged from her family for years, and that being plunged back into the emotional morass of a town where everyone knows – or thinks they know – everyone else’s business, is a living nightmare for her.
Flynn has drawn some of the nastiest fictional characters ever to slither around a suspense novel, including a quartet of middle-school girls teetering between sexual promiscuity and mean-girl bullying, a mother figure straight out of hell, and a protagonist with a wheelbarrow full of kinks – sexual and otherwise. It’s a horror scenario the reader can barely stand to watch, yet barely manage to put down. (