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Objetos Cortantes

Gillian Flynn

3.92 AVERAGE

dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book is absolutely disgusting, sickening, horrifying. Predictable at times, heavy-handed foreshadowing? Yes, absolutely. The last time I felt this disturbed and horrified was as a child, when showing each other graphic images of accidents or autopsies were all the rage. 

I do not shy away from body horror, and at most it usually makes me smirk: early Chuck Palahniuk (think Haunted), American Psycho, Victorian Psycho, splatterpunk: all too far removed from reality to feel credible, visceral. This story though? I believed every bit. 

About 20 to 30% way through the book I had figured out the killer. Easy right because I grew up on Agatha Christie. But it's in the last 1% that I discovered I was completely wrong. Bus this book rose from two stars to four stars.
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DID NOT FINISH: 30%

The topic and writing was too heavy for me to want to continue. It’s the first time I’ve read a psychological/horror/mystery Yk? I thought I’d like it bc I liked Girl, Interrupted, a lot, but I didn’t really enjoy this at all. 

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dark sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional mysterious reflective
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Read gone girl, this one was unlike gone girl but a good read. I found it to be a page turner. I found most of the characters to be really disturbing.

im torn between a 3 or 4 star rating. i think i’m gonna have to sit w it before i decide. lots to think about.

i thought it was the mom from the beginning. i thought it was amma for a little bit... but was so shocked by the ending. i thought that she was going to heal and get better and be good. yikes. i was wrong. i did predict that the mom had killed marian from the beginning.

it was uncomfortable and disgusting to read at parts, but interesting and kept me on the edge of my seat. i feel like i won’t ever stop thinking about it.

BUT the end i felt was rushed, and SOME points were predictable, even though i’m not super mad abt that bc i thought it was done well.

i’ll read other works by gillian flynn for sure.