Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
272 pages
I'd previously read Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl last spring and loved and hated it at the same time. This one, I pretty much just hated.
Camille is a Chicago-based reporter who has to travel back home to investigate two strange murders in her small town. The murder victims were both two young girls, and the town is still reeling with gossip over whether the murderer is an out-of-towner or it was an inside job.
While Camille is back in town, she stays at her mother's house, where she starts to get to know her much-younger sister Amma, and come to terms with her other sister's death decades before. She also has to endure the suffering of living again under the same roof as her frigid mother.
Every character in this story is unlikeable. The police officers, the lawyers, the murder victim's families, Camille's family --- everyone. I began thinking the only likeable characters were the murder victims, whom we never met alive! It really turns me off from a book when the main character is so unlikeable, and that's exactly how Sharp Objects was.
That being said, I am a fan of Flynn's fast-paced writing and will probably read Dark Places eventually as well.
Next up: Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
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