Sharp Objects is really creepy, though I liked Gone Girl better. In SO, Camille is a beginning newspaper reporter in Chicago, sent home to the small farming town she was brought up in, to get facts about the murders of two young teen girls. Camille has a problem with cutting herself, and once we ...
A friend recommended this because I liked "Gone Girl." Once again, the author has taken characters who seem unlikable and yet has created a compelling enough story that you want to find out what happens. This one is more of a mystery than "Gone Girl" -- in "Dark Places," a horrific crime occurr...
Luckily I read "Gone Girl" first, and I did like it very much. It was so fresh and mind-boggling. After reading "Sharp Objects" and then starting and refusing to continue "Dark Places," my opinion is that Flynn was ramping up to the quality of "Gone Girl." The characters in "Sharp Objects" we...
This starts off captivating the reader into the life of Camille and her relatable character. Camille is a journalist of a small time paper and is sent back to her hometown, when it appears that their maybe a serial killer on the loose killing little girls. The weird thing about the string of mu...