This is the third Gillian Flynn novel I have read. To date, I liked this one best. I am drawn to the darkness that Flynn's novels typically have and I like the words she uses to build a story. They bring the voice of the story alive. What I don't like are her endings; they tend to border on absurd. This one didn't have a great ending but it was less bizarre than her other novels.
Unlike Gillian Flynn's other novels, this one was painfully predictable. Maybe I just watched too many crime shows growing up and know too much about the profile of the type of murders that happen in this book. I wasn't even mildly surprised at the twist in the end.
Aside from that, the book made some really off color remarks on rape that they didn't do a good job of backtracking on. Like yeah, the woman conditioned to thinking punishment is intimacy said it, but there should have been more to reject that. Plus all the statutory rape that happens.
Camille has to go to her toxic af hometown to report on two murders that happened 9 months apart of a 9 and 10 year old. She drinks a lot and has one night stands and even does drugs with her 13 year old sister (Camille is in her 30s).
Several (weak) red herrings are planted throughout the story, with Camille thinking she might be getting some information, but not really. Plus she has to deal with her emotionally abusive mother and her Mean Girl to the max little sister.
It's definitely a dark read, as you would expect of Gillian Flynn. In general, if you like dark reads, this is a decent read that can easily be done in two sittings. however, if this had been the first novel by her I read, I wouldn't have seeked out the others.
Aside from that, the book made some really off color remarks on rape that they didn't do a good job of backtracking on. Like yeah, the woman conditioned to thinking punishment is intimacy said it, but there should have been more to reject that. Plus all the statutory rape that happens.
Camille has to go to her toxic af hometown to report on two murders that happened 9 months apart of a 9 and 10 year old. She drinks a lot and has one night stands and even does drugs with her 13 year old sister (Camille is in her 30s).
Several (weak) red herrings are planted throughout the story, with Camille thinking she might be getting some information, but not really. Plus she has to deal with her emotionally abusive mother and her Mean Girl to the max little sister.
It's definitely a dark read, as you would expect of Gillian Flynn. In general, if you like dark reads, this is a decent read that can easily be done in two sittings. however, if this had been the first novel by her I read, I wouldn't have seeked out the others.
