Sharp Objects is really creepy, though I liked Gone Girl better. In SO, Camille is a beginning newspaper reporter in Chicago, sent home to the small farming town she was brought up in, to get facts about the murders of two young teen girls. Camille has a problem with cutting herself, and once we ...
A friend recommended this because I liked "Gone Girl." Once again, the author has taken characters who seem unlikable and yet has created a compelling enough story that you want to find out what happens. This one is more of a mystery than "Gone Girl" -- in "Dark Places," a horrific crime occurr...
Luckily I read "Gone Girl" first, and I did like it very much. It was so fresh and mind-boggling. After reading "Sharp Objects" and then starting and refusing to continue "Dark Places," my opinion is that Flynn was ramping up to the quality of "Gone Girl." The characters in "Sharp Objects" we...
This starts off captivating the reader into the life of Camille and her relatable character. Camille is a journalist of a small time paper and is sent back to her hometown, when it appears that their maybe a serial killer on the loose killing little girls. The weird thing about the string of mu...
I saw them. That’s how stupid my husband is. One snowy April night, I felt so lonely. I was drinking warm amaretto with Bleecker and reading, lying on the floor as the snow came down, listening to old scratchy albums, like Nick and I used to (that entry was true). I had a burst of romantic cheer:...
I stopped giving hand jobs because I was the best at it. For three years, I gave the best hand job in the tristate area. The key is to not overthink it. If you start worrying about technique, if you begin analyzing rhythm and pressure, you lose the essential nature of the ...
She’d retreated to the bathroom after Len left, his livery smile still offering something unsavory, some sort of help she knew she didn’t want. The girls had flooded out of their bedroom as soon as they heard the door shut, and after a quick, whispery caucus outside the bathroom door, had decided...
Off. I cannot be found here, that’s what I wake up thinking, a burst of words, like a flash in my brain. The investigation is not going fast enough, and my money situation is just the opposite, and Jeff’s and Greta’s greedy antennae are up. And I smell like fish. There was something about Jeff an...