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*4.5 Stars*Gillian Flynn scares me.But it’s a good scare! A keep-you-up-all-night-anxiously-reading-because-closing-the-book-is-not-an-option kinda scare. If you thought Gone Girl was twisted, make room for Dark Places because this suspenseful thriller takes “freaky” to a whole *nuther* level.I went in thinking I was fully prepared.I wasn’t. This book is so astoundingly demented, it truly makes me wonder exactly how Miss Flynn thinks up such bold scenarios. The plot is so “out-there”, yet w...
my first experience with gillian flynn was a minor disaster. i had no idea how dark and disturbing her stories would be, so i was nowhere close to being in the right mental state for that kind of thing. now knowing the twisted things she is capable of writing, i found this book to be quite thrilling!ive also found GF has quite a slow paced style of writing but, with this particular story, i thought it worked really well. it helps develop the characters, establish a timeline of day of the crime,
Nothing like reading Gillian Flynn during the holidays to make you feel significantly better about your own familyWatch me discuss this book in my December wrap up: https://youtu.be/ReIV4UHlHCI
2021 read: When Libby Day was seven, she provided the damning testimony that put her brother, Ben, in prison for life, for the brutal Satanic(!) ritual murders of their mother and sisters. Today, barely eking out a living, Libby is approached by a 'True Crime' community who are convinced that Ben is innocent of the often in the public eye murders. Having run out of her 'tell-all memoir' money, Libby has no choice but to start investigating the murders at the behest of this club... and very quick...
Normally I wouldn't give a genre book like this a 5-star review, because I'm picky and controlling about handing out major praise. How could a crime/mystery be as good as, say, Thomas Hardy or Alice Munro? Apples and oranges.But I just finished this about five minutes ago, and it made me gasp. It's so good -- a well-paced page-turner, beautifully wrought. I literally couldn't put it down for longer than a couple hours at a time once I picked it up (with the exception of sleep).According to her A...
I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way. Libby Day is famous for all the wrong reasons.When she was seven years old when her mother and two sisters were murdered at the height of the Satanic Panic in her small town in Kansas.All the evidence pointed to Ben, Libby's older brother. The same older brother that Libby adored and idolized.And with that, Libby's life came crashing down, and it hasn't stopped falling since. I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable a
As someone who grew up in rural Kansas and has lived in the suburbs of Kansas City for the last fourteen years, I made my peace long ago with the fact that I don’t reside in one of the hip places on the map. The only Kansas based things that have worked their way into popular culture are In Cold Blood and that goddamn Wizard of Oz. (As a Kansan, I listen to everyone I’ve met from somewhere else do the “I guess you’re not in Kansas anymore! Ha ha!” thing and can barely resist the urge to punch th...
i do NOT like the ending of this book. maybe that's just me and thrillers, idk.but otherwise this was fantastically told.
Lesson learned # 1: Gillian Flynn is excellent at creating unpleasant characters and disturbing situations. “I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.” Lesson learned # 2: Reading her books in a dark apartment at 3 am is a big making-skin-crawl mistake. Dark Places is a book capable of leaving a nasty aftertaste and vague uncomfortable feeling for days after finishing it. I strongly suspect it is its
