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Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

592 reviews

manaaarrr's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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bitofadisgrace's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was extremely and deeply disturbing, but hard to put down. I ended up hating every character by the end, but they aren't exactly meant to be likable.
The central mystery is intriguing, and the small Southern Missouri town it takes place in feels very real.

I also appreciate the exploration of how mothers have a special ability to harm their daughters.

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josieschahn's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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tahlisenior's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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jordanh's review against another edition

2.5

I know this was intentionally disturbing, I know this was meant to make you uncomfortable, I know that. But there were many elements of this that felt disturbing just for the sake of being disturbing, and served nothing to the actual plot. And I'm still not really sure how I feel about books that are uncomfortable just for the sake of it. I absolutely think there should be room for disconcerting content in art because art is meant to make you feel something and sometimes that something should be negative, but if it's simply eliciting negative emotion for no reason, what's being accomplished? Does something always need to be accomplished from art or can it be successful if all it's done is make its audience feel something? I don't know, I haven't decided my stance on that.

However, this was uncomfortable in ways I absolutely did not enjoy. I don't know exactly how old Camille is, but I do know she's too old to be partying with a bunch of 13 year olds and doing drugs with them, I know she's too old to be having sex with an 18 year old, and I know she's too old to be so hung up on the bodies of 13 year old girls. I do not like how many times the boobs of teenage girls were described. I don't like how often boobs were described in general, but more specifically the boobs of teenage girls. Terrible. I also don't understand why there was a scene with Camille and her 13 year old sister tonguing in a game that involved orally passing drugs around. I don't like that just a few scenes later they also slept in the same bed and the 13 year old was almost totally naked.

Yes, this

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mablesyrup's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This doesn’t even feel like a debut novel bro ily Gillian Flynn.

this book was twisted and uncomfortable and tense and honestly… kinda nasty, but not in the way you’d think. Sharp Objects is disturbing and nasty in the character work, Camille is mentally troubled and always drunk, Adora is negligent and mysterious, Amma is promiscuous and petty, the town and it’s people feel like they’re drowning you. The book isn’t at all gore oriented, and tho i went into it expecting that I’m not mad at all that i didn’t get that

The whole murder mystery part was very interesting and the unreliable narrator that Camille is had me second guessing and yea I got it wrong but the fucking irony is that I underlined so many things that incriminate the actual killer but I was like not connecting the dots.

One thing I’m not sure if i did or didn’t like was Camille’s history of self harm and how it ties, or doesn’t, to the plot. I wish they would’ve had a bigger role in uncovering who did it but in the end i get why it’s not done cuz it wouldn’t make sense but it would’ve been cool as some sort of misleading hidden-in-plain-sight clue

Overall it was a fantastic introduction to the author, makes me excited to see how i feel about her other books

“When denied access to other body parts, men become fixated on the ear” idk if was just me but there’s so much to unpack with that quote

“I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”

“Hurt as a form of flirtation. Pain as intimacy”

“Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss”

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