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While the plot's twists are painfully easy to predict (save an intense memento mori at the end), Flynn does a nice job of putting her story together and reflecting her heroine's thoroughly skewed inner world.
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2.5 stars
Gillian Flynn is a great writer. She knows how to use words to wrap you in, and a plot that entices you to read no matter how dark and morbid the subject matter. Her stories are raw and powerful. But sometimes she shows me things I wished I never knew or thought about.
This book deals with a dark mystery and an even darker heroine. But the plot gets even darker.
This may be a book for people who like it that dark and twisted.
But,
if you prefer not to think things that you might not have t ...more
Gillian Flynn is a great writer. She knows how to use words to wrap you in, and a plot that entices you to read no matter how dark and morbid the subject matter. Her stories are raw and powerful. But sometimes she shows me things I wished I never knew or thought about.
This book deals with a dark mystery and an even darker heroine. But the plot gets even darker.
This may be a book for people who like it that dark and twisted.
But,
if you prefer not to think things that you might not have t ...more
There is no doubt as to why this book won a steel dagger award. Flynn is a master of her craft and you never really know what she is thinking until the last page.
I enjoyed this much more than Gone Girl. A good mystery... I did figure it out, but not too early. A well-written page-turner.
Nov 08, 2012
Beth
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