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Dec 23, 2012 Antonia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: i-own, mystery-suspense-horror

One of the darkest, most tormented and difficult stories I've ever read.

I read "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn back in early 2013 and I liked this book, but I didn't really connect to the characters, I always felt like something was missing. This didn't happen with "Dark Places" though. The story started out so well and I instantly fell in love with Libby Day and her flawed and broken personality. The plot enveloped me and I just couldn't put the book down. I had so many speculations about what rea ...more

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Nov 04, 2014 Vikas rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Dark places was indeed very dark. The story mostly goes in two years current and then the day when the murders happened. This was a slow burner of the ending where in we pull the layers of secrets and story one by one. Next book of Gilliam Flynn's I intend to read is Gone Girl.

People who don't read generally ask me my reasons for reading. Simply put I just love reading and so to that end I have made it my motto to just Keep on Reading. I love to read everything except for Self Help books but eve ...more

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Oct 18, 2014 Rosabelle Purnama rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller, crime, books-i-own

Stay away from this book if you don't like disturbing thrillers, this would not be the book for you.

My first Gillian Flynn book was Gone Girl, and I find myself wanting to read all the time until i finish it. Before sleep, right after i arrived home from work, in the bathroom, and at lunch on my desk. It was a huge page turner. I read Dark Places hoping for the same thing, but didn't really find it until the last 150 pages or so. I struggled to get through the first 100 pages, it was boring and ...more

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Feb 14, 2015 Amritha rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: gryffindor-mmp

A bit too violent for my taste.

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Nov 20, 2016 Alka rated it liked it

Shelves: kwench

Interesting premise but turns grisly towards the end. Those of you who have read her gone girl would know that a darkness pervades her writing. A quick back jacket reading would tell you that the protagonist's family had been killed when she was 7 years old and her testimony had put her 15 year old brother in jail for a life term for killing their mother and two sisters. The novel moves between then and now, 22 years later, when a group has contacted her to dig in the murders. There are convolut ...more

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Jul 16, 2013 Maina rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2013

I think I would have liked this better if I had read it before sharp objects and gone girl. The characters all had their issues, but none were as disturbed as those in Flynn's other two novels. The description on the back on the book led me to believe that there would be much more suspense. Although I kept reading in order to find out who committed the murders, it wasn't as much of a page turner as I had hoped. ...more

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Jan 31, 2013 Kylie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-2012, books-i-cant-live-without

This is one of the most disturbing books I have read in a long time. However, that quality is my favorite aspect of the book! This is a book that will stay with you for a long while afterwards, and I actually Googled the 1980s farm crisis to learn more about the turbulent times described in the book. Gillian Flynn is one of my favorite authors because of this book and her other ones!

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