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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
Sharp Objects ~ Gillian Flynn
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CarolK 

   Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn might have been a good book for a dreary October night. Not because it has ghosts or goblins or that it is Halloweenie but it sure gave me the creeps. 

Camille Preaker is a so-so reporter with lots of baggage for the fourth largest newspaper in Chicago. Her boss Curry sends Camille home to Wind Gap, MO to write the press for the cold case murder of a young girl who was found strangled with all her teeth pulled out. Now another girl is missing. Camille's idea of happy does not embrace going home but she owes Curry and the job is the job. Up to this point the story sounds like any missing person/murder whodunit. But in the hands of Flynn the book takes some sharp, unsettling turns. This is one dark story. There's truly nasty, damaged souls in these pages, people I'm happy not to know. It's a compliment to Flynn that the story disturbed me as much as it did. I won't soon forget the plot, the characters or the outcome. 

Sharp Objects did make squirm but I respect Flynn's writing. One passage I loved and will keep is this: 

Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kids grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keene's, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground. 

Beautiful! 

Three stars because I can't say "I really liked" Sharp Objects. I read it to the end even though  my senses were assaulted. I put Flynn's second book, Dark Places, on my TBR list. I need to read what this writer served up the second time around.

Add a comment  (2 comments) posted by CarolK

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bas bleu said, on Sep. 11 at 10:14AM
I just picked it up from the library...I'll get back to you about my opinion when I have finished it!

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bas bleu said, on Sep. 25 at 8:32AM
I just finished this the other day,and I must say that your review was spot on...the characters really creeped me out!

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