Read for CBR 10 Bingo: Award winner. It won the “New Blood Fiction Dagger” and “Ian Fleming Steel Dagger” from the 2007 Crime Writers Awards. I don’t know how to feel about this book. I think like Gone Girl, in which Gillian Flynn makes an improvement over her first novel here for a deeper tale, I will appreciate it more as time goes on. But I’m having a hard time discerning what the point Flynn is trying to make about women and parenting, aside from that […]
Flynn: more like Gone Girl than Dark Places…which is good.
Gillian Flynn can definitely writer a thriller, and this one was a compelling page turner. I just discovered that I actually read her works in reverse order to her writing them. Sharp Objects is her first novel, followed by Dark Places and book-ended (heh) with Gone Girl. Flynn jumped on my radar like she did for many people, with Gone Girl, so I read it first, then Dark Places mostly because I could get it on audiobook quickly, and finally this one, also on audiobook. […]
Mommy Issues
Gillian Flynn has a dark & twisty mind; and I mean that in the best way possible. As a reporter for a second rate newspaper in Chicago, Camille Preaker returns to her tiny Missouri hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Camille left home years ago, following the death of her younger sister, an emotional collapse and a stay in the psych ward. Since her escape from rural Wind Gap, Camille has hardly spoken to her overbearing, hypochondriac mother or high school friends. […]