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En Hjelpende Hånd

Gillian Flynn

3.55 AVERAGE


6: The Grownup by Gillian Flynn...as given to me for FREE by the Book of the Month Club, or I fairly surely would not have picked it up. It's super short, and I don't like ghost stories, and...I was surely offended, in my personal prudery, by the first pages and several after that. However, I did read it all, and I am still thinking about it today...a little.

Fun spooky little story.

3.5

A great wee short story!
dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Nothing wrong with a short story to breeze through during a silent book club!

I'd say this book would be just as easily read in one sitting even if it were a longer novel. The pacing is great and the characters, though you only know them for a short time, are dynamic. And damn, does Gillian Flynn know how to mess with your head or what?

64 pages of what the crap did I just read. Creepy.

My first from this author. 

Genuinely creepy at times, but too much “double cross, no double double cross for my liking”. 
dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes