Title:
Sharp Objects
Sharp Objects
Author:
Gillian Flynn
★★☆☆☆
2 out of 5 stars
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s
troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first
assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her
reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.
Since she left town eight years ago, 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 again in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by
the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her
memory.
As Camille works to uncover the truth about these
violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too
strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the
psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own
demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she
wants to survive this homecoming.
This I considered was the Gillian Flynn book I was
absolutely gonna love, I was mistaken. The plot seemed so appealing and to be
honest I actually liked how wicked the main character is -a cutter with an
addict-like personality, mommy issues, whom is never gonna succeed in life- the
sick relationship she has with her family members and all her flaws. But after
a while I got tired of her, she read so incomplete, I understand she was meant
to be this flawed being, but that was all she was. You have her walking around
in circles interviewing people, drinking bourbon and calling everyone a fake
-not to their faces- while her overly perfectionist mother and her narcissistic
pre adolescent half-sister run the whole town, while it was oh-so clear to me
who the killer was.
I just don't enjoy Flynn's way to solve plots, I
somehow always see it coming, always.
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