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If you like stories about seriously messed up people who do horrific things then this is for you
AUTHOR Flynn, Gillian
TITLE: Dark Places
DATE READ 03/12/2018
RATING 4.5/B+
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Crime Fiction/2009/Random Audio/ 11 CD's
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHARACTERS Libby Day/ youngest of the Day family -- survivor; her mother and 2 sisters were murdered
TIME/PLACE: 2009 Kansas
COMMENTS Dark and twisted. Did not see the ending coming. Libby Day was about 7 when her mother and 2 older sisters were brutally murdered. Her older brother Ben has been imprisoned for 24 years for this cri ...more
TITLE: Dark Places
DATE READ 03/12/2018
RATING 4.5/B+
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Crime Fiction/2009/Random Audio/ 11 CD's
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHARACTERS Libby Day/ youngest of the Day family -- survivor; her mother and 2 sisters were murdered
TIME/PLACE: 2009 Kansas
COMMENTS Dark and twisted. Did not see the ending coming. Libby Day was about 7 when her mother and 2 older sisters were brutally murdered. Her older brother Ben has been imprisoned for 24 years for this cri ...more
I'm reading the Gillian Flynn books in published order as some youtube book reviewers have recommended. I really enjoyed this one. I've also read sharp objects by the same author. It's hard to say which I like better there were aspects of this I liked over Sharp Objects and the reverse for others.
This protagonist, Libby, in this book survived a family massacre when she was 7. Her brother, Ben, was convicted of the murders. 24 years Libby has been living off donations but the money is coming to a ...more
This protagonist, Libby, in this book survived a family massacre when she was 7. Her brother, Ben, was convicted of the murders. 24 years Libby has been living off donations but the money is coming to a ...more
I found this book fairly engrossing until the unsatisfying ending that seemed to totally undermine the fine writing to that point.
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Coincidentally, there were actually TWO murderers, one of whom is suddenly introduced in the last thirty pages of the novel? If that wasn't bad enough, after some twenty years of no news on this murder, our heroine Libby undertakes to uncover the truth, learns half of it and, again coincidentally, receives news of the other half via an unrelated contrivance s ...more
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Coincidentally, there were actually TWO murderers, one of whom is suddenly introduced in the last thirty pages of the novel? If that wasn't bad enough, after some twenty years of no news on this murder, our heroine Libby undertakes to uncover the truth, learns half of it and, again coincidentally, receives news of the other half via an unrelated contrivance s ...more
Reading a Gillian Flynn book is a stressful experience but one that's addictive. She always nails the desolate Midwest setting with its dead-end vibe and the fucked-up characters--how they get to be the way they are and how their actions collide to kickstart a chain of events that leads to a horrible crime. So here in her second novel, again the unlikeable characters are really unlikeable and the likeable ones make it hard to like them when they’re making really bad decisions. But all of it feel
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It is no wonder this author won a dagger award. Her books are tightly written and out of the ordinary mysteries. This is the followup to Sharp Objects and has all of her trademark style
Well-written, suspenseful. Too much going on in the plot! I ended up enjoying reading a book where the main character was unlikeable and disinterested in personal redemption. Fun trash!
Grabs you on the first page and is riveting, un-put-downable!
Excellent. Flynn does not disappoint.
Jul 10, 2009
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