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 AuntieClio | Mar 6, 2015 |  After reading Sharp Objects all I keep thinking to myself is: what the fuck . Without a doubt it was disturbing which made it such a good read for me. After reading Dark Places and now this one I can definitely say that Gillian Flynn writes exactly the type of novels I love to read. Her novels are full of broken, flawed characters thrown into morbid realities. All I have left to do is wait for my copy of Gone Girl to arrive. (  ) Serenity_Tigerlily | Mar 3, 2015 | Gillian Flynn is a master at making her readers feel uncomfortable. For the entire book I had this uneasy feeling as if something bad was about to happen. It is a bit more slow paced than Gone Girl, but it always feels like Camille is one page away from something very bad happening. At one point I actually had to stop reading because I felt like I had experienced enough uneasiness for one night. Even, so that uneasiness is really what made me love this story so much. Each character has a secret and it is so much fun to find out these character's dirty laundry. I'm not sure which character is creepier: Amma, Camille's 13 year old lolita-wannabe half-sister, or her cold, seemingly perfect mother Adora. As much as I disliked these characters as people, I couldn't get enough of them. In the end, I felt a little numb. It was sad and I felt for Camille. She has had a hard life and survived the best should could in a toxic environment. Unfortunately, if you're a character in a Gillian Flynn novel then you're probably not destined for a happy ending. Sharp Objects forces readers to dive into a dark family mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end. If anything, this book will make you thankful your family isn't as crazy as Camille's (  ) brittanysmack | Feb 23, 2015 | Not as intriguing as Gone Girl but a solid mystery. Characters well drawn despite being absurd monstrosities. Read it very quickly but maybe a tighter story would have been better? Enjoyable. (  ) aine.fin | Feb 20, 2015 | After I read Gone Girl, which left me kind of cold, I don’t think I even wrote a review about it here, I said, “NO MORE GILLIAN FLYNN”. As you can see I didn’t stick to that. I got a sample, it intrigued me, and so I got the book. From the library, because if I had actually paid money for this drivel I would be fucking pissed. Some spoilers in review The story is told from the viewpoint of Camille Preaker, who is a reporter and mentally ill, totally messed up by mommie dearest who never liked much less loved her. Camille is a cutter, except she doesn’t just cut, she carves words into herself. So fresh from this environment and just out of a mental hospital, Camille is sent back to her whack job of a mother by her boss. Of course at this point in the book, he doesn’t know how deranged Camille’s family is. And Camille is not ready to let the world know she has words written all over her body. She even convinced a guy to have sex with her clothes on. Camille is just there to cover the story, but in the way these things happen in books, she ends up working to solve the crime, not just report on the family and the victims relations with their family and others. And she figures it out, except she’s wrong. I was wrong too. In Gone Girl, the main female character is a MEAN GIRL, in this book, Camille is not a MEAN GIRL, but we get the idea that she was one in high school. Her mother and half-sister are devious and manipulative and spiteful and venomous. I raced through this book, mainly because I had to find out the ending, but I can’t say I enjoyed it. (  ) BellaFoxx | Feb 14, 2015 | no reviews | add a review Is contained in
 Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0307341550, Paperback)As loyal Entertainment Weekly subscribers, we have been fans of Gillian Flynn for her smart, funny, and spot-on reviews of books, movies, and TV, but we were not prepared for her stunning debut novel Sharp Objects, a wickedly dark thriller that Stephen King calls a "relentlessly creepy family saga" and an "admirably nasty piece of work." We're calling it a cross between Twin Peaks and Secretary--sinister, sexy, and stylish. Perfect fall reading. --Daphne Durham 10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Gillian Flynn
(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:59:50 -0400) Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence and a short stay at a psychiatric hospital 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.… (more) |
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Written before Gone Girl, Sharp Objects is tighter with a more sympathetic protagonist. I could identify all too well with Camille's descent into her own personal hell when confronting the realization of who, and what, her mother is. There were moments when I teared up in sympathy.
This is disturbing, yet captivating reading. Flynn's books are not something I have sought out, and I can't say I'm sorry I read them but they are hard edged stories and not for the faint of heart. (