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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
This: “People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”
I’m not sure what I was expecting with this book, but I really devoured it when I was able to do so. I think I may have enjoyed reading this more than I did Gone Girl, but I’m the worst and watched the Gone Girl movie years ago so I knew what happened. But regardless, this is the kind of book I’ve been craving. A chilling debut novel from Gillian Flynn to my understanding.
Not the biggest fan of how it ended- I’m left with many questions- but it was still a good build up. I was fascinated by the way this story molds its monsters with each turning page.
Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder
I went into this with pretty high expectations after loving Gone Girl but I really didn't get on with this. The premise was interesting but I guessed the plot twist really early on (and that never happens!) and there were some things that just made me uncomfortable and not in the way a thriller should.
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
*Read via audiobook on Libby.*