Sharp Objects
From New York Times Bestselling author of Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn does it again with Sharp Objects, now an HBO Limited Series starring Amy Adams. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
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Readers say *Sharp Objects* by Gillian Flynn is a dark, psychological thriller with a haunting atmosphere and complex characters. While praised for it...
Camille was a real piece of work. Just as I began mustering some sympathy for her, she proved all the ways she's seriously messed up. Still...she's a victim in a spiral propelling forth more pain and horrible decisions amuck. And even with all of her dysfunction, her little sister is the real terrifying piece of work.
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Yep - another dark and twisted mystery from Gillian Flynn. This one didn't have quite the same grit as Dark Places or Gone Girl, but I still liked it. The protagonist, Camille Preaker, just out of the white walled building, is plunged back into the depths of her small hometown life when the murder of two little girls garners big city attention and her boss wants her to cover the story. Camille sets to simply report on the task, but by virtue of her past, becomes deeply entangled within the web capturing victims. Returning to her roots, and particularly to her mother, proves to be almost more than Camille can swallow. However, her ever attentive mother seems to always find a way...
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