Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

5 reviews

0live_tr33's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Fatphobia, Animal cruelty, Toxic friendship, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Self harm, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Racism, Murder, Mental illness, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Child abuse, and Body shaming

nadiaxm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

Gillian Flynn you have done it once again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Self harm, Body horror, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexism, Religious bigotry, and Rape

gwynnfox's review against another edition

Absolutely disgusted with how sexualized the 13 year old girls are. It's not like the narrator consistently speaks against this sexualization, she even takes part in it, when she speaks of her 13 year old sister's body, calling it perfect. There are times this is basically child porn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Torture, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Homophobia, Infertility, Kidnapping, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, and Sexual content

andatherrin's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Self harm, Medical trauma, Child death, and Bullying

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, and Kidnapping

princessgonchar's review against another edition

challenging 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? No

2.0

This flip-flopped back and forth for me between being painfully unsurprising and insufferably confusing all while being such a slow crawl to the end for being under 300 pages.

I'll start with painfully unsurprising. Granted, this was published in 2006, but this idea of

crazy mother who wants to take care of her kids so she makes them sick

feels so overplayed at this point, and it was clear that that was happening from the beginning. Also

Amma was a bitch the whole time and it was obvious that Adora couldn't poison the kids who weren't hers

. Like I just wanted an ounce of surprise.

The problem is that there was some surprise, but it came in the form of total nonsense. Like why in the world would

Camille sleep with John????

. It came out of literally no where, and I think there was supposed to be something endearing about the reading of the scars, but it all just felt so contrived and weird. Almost nothing Camille did at the end of the book made sense to me. And there were a significant amount of times were I was just like "why??? why is this happening????". 

Also, I unequivocally hated every single character in this book. I want to make it clear that I didn't not like this book/its characters because it/they felt overly dark or it/they wasn't feminist enough. I mean the book is about child murder, it's going to be dark (and tbh nothing bothered me too much except for the

incessant eyelash picking, but I have a weird thing about eyes, so

), and if you're reading thrillers for the feminist theory, then I think there are more problems at hand.

That being said: Camille wasn't endearing or even remotely sympathetic, there was literally no reason why she should have gone back to Missouri or why she stayed. I don't think the journalism thing was convincing enough. Richard sucked, her family sucked harder, and there was literally not a single character that made me go "well, at least they're in this scene." It was a constant battle of the characters to see who ended up my least favorite. And I hate to say it, but it might have been Camille.

I gave it two stars instead of one because I do genuinely think Gillian Flynn is good at writing. The voice in the novel was really good, and I liked a lot of the descriptions (even if it slowed things down a bit). Also, the reveal at the end with the

teeth in the dollhouse was really well done, even if Amma was clearly the murderer the whole time

. 

This was such a disappointment for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Rape