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Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

199 reviews

sydtl's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Violence

marbeemc's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

pagesinthesnow's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Sexual content

Minor: Racism, Sexual assault, Excrement, Vomit, and Fire/Fire injury

magikorbert's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

i fucking love gillian flynn. i love the way she writes apathetic, take-no-shit-cuz-i've-been-thru-enough-shit women. her writing is enthralling and twisted and wrenching. i'm ready for gone girl.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Pedophilia and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit

livalyse's review

dark tense medium-paced

4.0

imagine finding out your son is a violent pedophile and your solution is to orchestrate your own brutal murder and get your 10 year old daughter butchered with an axe in order to pay for his legal fees??? boy moms need to be stopped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

lany_f's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

3.75 STARS
intriguing characterizations. Some characters might be innocent in regard to one event, but not innocent in others. Two folds and that is what kept me engaged and interested enough to finish the book.
I will say the reveal at the end of the book, one part was done well, and the other was thrown in as a line or two, not much time or thought spent with it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Pregnancy

sheralbeereads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book is indeed dark. Flynn does a fantastic job giving us a concentrated dose of her characters in each POV chapter. I enjoyed the mystery in this book, though Flynn's writing sucked me in so thoroughly that when I closed the book I needed a moment to leave Kinnakee, Kansas behind. Flynn is a great writer and this is another example of her prowess. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Violence, and Blood

oliviahamilton's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Read for a book club - if it were just for me I probably wouldn’t have read past the first chapter. But once I got into it I was invested. Well paced interesting story with many layers and characters. Did not anticipate the ending, at least not in the way it happened. Overall a good mystery! 

Side note, but was it necessary to mention every woman and girl’s breast size/shape throughout the story, repeatedly in some cases?? I’m shocked this was written by a woman. Overall felt it was well written with effective details, but the boob thing was weird.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Violence, and Murder

christianaskaar's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

apomplun's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Grief