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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
Sharp Objects is the most disturbing book I've read in a long time. Gillian Flynn writes from the perspective of these incredibly fucked up characters in such a way that you feel like you're drowning in their thoughts. While not as clever as Gone Girl, this debut was far creepier. The only real criticism I have is that the final plot twist felt a bit rushed. Read this one on a sunny day with the knife drawer locked up tight.
Grade: A-
Grade: A-
•4.5
I think this may be one of my favourite books of the year. If you’re into dark, creepy, messed up thriller THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. I couldn’t stop reading this book, because the dark elements made me keep reading.
I found it parts of predictable, but other twists through me for a complete loop. Overall, I was completely shocked at the end.
The reason it lost half a star was for the fact that even though it was only 250 pages, it still felt so slow for me & I felt that there was filler that didn’t need to be there. I thought it could be even shorter than it was to throw the most punch. Also, the end is told of more of a recounting of the actions instead of the characters living them which took a bit of the end from me.
Despite the few complaints, the rest of the book was extraordinary & I definitely reccomend it.
I think this may be one of my favourite books of the year. If you’re into dark, creepy, messed up thriller THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. I couldn’t stop reading this book, because the dark elements made me keep reading.
I found it parts of predictable, but other twists through me for a complete loop. Overall, I was completely shocked at the end.
The reason it lost half a star was for the fact that even though it was only 250 pages, it still felt so slow for me & I felt that there was filler that didn’t need to be there. I thought it could be even shorter than it was to throw the most punch. Also, the end is told of more of a recounting of the actions instead of the characters living them which took a bit of the end from me.
Despite the few complaints, the rest of the book was extraordinary & I definitely reccomend it.
This is an spectacular Psychological thriller. I can't even described how this book bent and twisted my mind and my imagination. Gillian Flynn wrote her characters in a way that the reader would feel for them. Nick and Amy Dunne really embodies the term "nuclear couple". With all their twisted thoughts and needs.
You have to admit that Amy Elliot Dunne has a brilliant mind.
You have to admit that Amy Elliot Dunne has a brilliant mind.
i wish i had never read this book. honestly the only way i can put it is, what a god awful story. what a god awful thing. and i know, this is the reaction she wanted, and she's very good at evoking the reaction she wants, i'll give her that. it's going to stick with me for a long time in the unsavory kind of way you don't want things to, but what was i expecting, really. i was going to give this 2 stars, but my genuine liking for libby by the end surprised me so much i had to bump it up. and i know that's not what it's about, and it's not like some kind of jumping through hoops, ~u have to win me over b4 i like ur story~, it's just that she was the realest, rawest thing to me about the book and that scene at the end when she pulls up to diana's and she hugs her, and says i always knew you could do it, libby - i almost cried. but for real. what a god fucking damn awful story. you know what, i think the thing that made it so much more awful to me, is that it wasn't, really, it wasn't supposed to be awful, it was supposed to be people doing things for each other, for the people they loved, in the midst of a shit time and place, and it just rotted down to the bone so fucking fast. so fucking unfortunate.
god, i really wish i had never read this book. but hey, just in time for halloween, right?
god, i really wish i had never read this book. but hey, just in time for halloween, right?
Brilliantly written and crafted and terrifying. This book took me through a full range of emotions over the course of the ... what, 24 hours I took to read it because I could not put it down? The characters are flawed, horrible, realistic (and psychopathic!) all at once. This book is going to stick with me for a long, long time.
The back-and-forth PoVs work brilliantly to weave a portrayal of a marriage gone wrong in every way possible between two people who have an addiction to each other. The ending is just ... wow. Wow. The ending threw me for a loop. I wanted something else to happen. The entire book could be described like that, though: Gillian Flynn's writing and narration leads the reader through conviction and uncertainty, doubt and a strange, tickling feeling at the base of the skull where you don't know what's happening but you sure do feel like you do... I kept wanting 'something else' to happen. And then when it didn't, I felt even more satisfied (yet betrayed!) by the path the plot took.
Intricately plotted and incredibly intelligent, this book is up there on my all-time favourites list. Wow.
The back-and-forth PoVs work brilliantly to weave a portrayal of a marriage gone wrong in every way possible between two people who have an addiction to each other. The ending is just ... wow. Wow. The ending threw me for a loop. I wanted something else to happen. The entire book could be described like that, though: Gillian Flynn's writing and narration leads the reader through conviction and uncertainty, doubt and a strange, tickling feeling at the base of the skull where you don't know what's happening but you sure do feel like you do... I kept wanting 'something else' to happen. And then when it didn't, I felt even more satisfied (yet betrayed!) by the path the plot took.
Intricately plotted and incredibly intelligent, this book is up there on my all-time favourites list. Wow.
this book was okay, I didn't really think it was anything special, I guessed who the killer was within the first 30 pages so it wasn't really a surprise or twist.
All I can say is disturbing and creepy, but I couldn't put down and read the second half in one night.