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tanitatakata's review
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? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
bluescat1854's review
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship and Mental illness
singh_reads_kanwar2's review
4.0
Gone girl;
This book , The novel's core mystery stems from an uncertainty about the protagonist, Nick Dunne. Whether Nick killed his wife, Amy Dunne, is the suspense the novel is built up on. Gone Girl centers its story about Nick and Amy Dunne's strained marriage relationship. Nick used to work as a journalist, but loses his job. With his broke financial status, Nick decides to relocate from New York City to his smaller home town, North Carthage.
In an attempt of recovering from his financial deprivations, Nick opens a bar using the money from his wife. Nick runs the bar along with his twin sister Margo, providing a decent living for his family. But, as they days go by, his marriage with Amy is falling apart slowly. Amy resents her new life. On a summer morning in Missouri, when Nick and Amy was about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary along with their relatives and acquaintances, Amy goes missing.
Police's eyes turn towards Nick as an act of suspicion, since Nick used Amy's money for his business and their relationship is strained. As the police delve into the investigation, different shades of stories come out from Nick's and Amy's sides. The suspense of the book is carried until the actual information is demystified.
Fake feminism is mocked and some sadistic desire of Amy is became the bone in the throat for Nick. There relationship strained from both end but only Nick got hated when Amy went missing. A 2 way street of relationship can't be ran by one person being responsible and taking it on there shouder. Nick realisation came late but the pain and harrasment is disturbing for everyone.
Dark spaces :
This is the story of the dysfunctional family and poor Libby Day who survived at age 7 the day when her mother, Patty Day, and sisters, Michelle and Debby, 11 and 9 were brutally murdered in there farm home by Ben, her strange brother, in the lonely rundown farmhouse that night which put him behind prison for 24 years.Libby is now 31, but she can't put it behind her, despite years of therapy.
But the pity money, that was holding her up is depleted immensely. She either has to find a job or sell the boxed up items her sisters and mother had until their murders, to 'kill clubs' - organized by mystery fans of serial killings and famous mass murders, offer came from Kill Club President Lyle Wirth, despite the hostility of the members towards her.
Lyle and friends supporting their belief Ben is innocent through info collected by them, when Libby looks at their information, she begins to have doubts.
In alternating chapters ,shifting between Ben and Patty in 1985 and Libby in Now, the past is lived and remembered once again. Her memories stirred by the boxed memorable of her sisters, as well as discovering her sister's Michelle's diaries, leads Libby to join with Lyle and begin to half-heartedly track down people who knew her family before they were murdered. After all, Libby had been 7. But first, she must go see Ben in prison, the first time since he was convicted, she still thinks he is guilty. But he is all she has left, and so she realizes she wants to find out what really happened that night.
As she re-interviews witnesses from the trial, Libby does not really consider what it might mean if she proves Ben did not do it. Because if he didn't, someone else did it.....and whoever that was may not like anything new being dug up now - unless it's to bury Libby. The night in question in novel is dark because whole family have something to hide from one another before the tragedy strikes.
Sharp objects:
This is a truly unique book, not only because of the plot, but main character and the story link up of timelines . This book made readers uncomfortable many times. My discomfort mainly from the actions of the main character and the choices she made. Camille is the kind of person, I had the urge to shake quite often while yelling at her to act like an adult. I believe that she is a well constructed character from the point of view of character psychology.
The plot was also fascinating yet typical. Two girls are brutally murdered in a small town and everything points to a serial killer. Camille, the main character, returns after many years to the town where she grew up to describe these crimes. It sounds like a typical story But here's what the author has done with this simple idea is truly unique. A small town turns out to be saturated with dark secrets and small crimes. Bored rich ladies raise their little ideal children who continue the family tradition of maintaining a strict hierarchy.
We see all this through the eyes of the main character, Camille, who, being daughter of one of the most important women in the town, is a part of this society and, due to her profession as a reporter and an escape from the town many years ago and people labelled her a rebel. At the same time, Camille has her own problems related to both alcohol abuse and deep mental problems. Her problems sometimes prevent her from discovering the truth, but amazingly, sometimes they help her put things into perspective. When truth of the murder came to light and people were put behind bars that was a satisfactory point in the novel.
This book , The novel's core mystery stems from an uncertainty about the protagonist, Nick Dunne. Whether Nick killed his wife, Amy Dunne, is the suspense the novel is built up on. Gone Girl centers its story about Nick and Amy Dunne's strained marriage relationship. Nick used to work as a journalist, but loses his job. With his broke financial status, Nick decides to relocate from New York City to his smaller home town, North Carthage.
In an attempt of recovering from his financial deprivations, Nick opens a bar using the money from his wife. Nick runs the bar along with his twin sister Margo, providing a decent living for his family. But, as they days go by, his marriage with Amy is falling apart slowly. Amy resents her new life. On a summer morning in Missouri, when Nick and Amy was about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary along with their relatives and acquaintances, Amy goes missing.
Police's eyes turn towards Nick as an act of suspicion, since Nick used Amy's money for his business and their relationship is strained. As the police delve into the investigation, different shades of stories come out from Nick's and Amy's sides. The suspense of the book is carried until the actual information is demystified.
Fake feminism is mocked and some sadistic desire of Amy is became the bone in the throat for Nick. There relationship strained from both end but only Nick got hated when Amy went missing. A 2 way street of relationship can't be ran by one person being responsible and taking it on there shouder. Nick realisation came late but the pain and harrasment is disturbing for everyone.
Dark spaces :
This is the story of the dysfunctional family and poor Libby Day who survived at age 7 the day when her mother, Patty Day, and sisters, Michelle and Debby, 11 and 9 were brutally murdered in there farm home by Ben, her strange brother, in the lonely rundown farmhouse that night which put him behind prison for 24 years.Libby is now 31, but she can't put it behind her, despite years of therapy.
But the pity money, that was holding her up is depleted immensely. She either has to find a job or sell the boxed up items her sisters and mother had until their murders, to 'kill clubs' - organized by mystery fans of serial killings and famous mass murders, offer came from Kill Club President Lyle Wirth, despite the hostility of the members towards her.
Lyle and friends supporting their belief Ben is innocent through info collected by them, when Libby looks at their information, she begins to have doubts.
In alternating chapters ,shifting between Ben and Patty in 1985 and Libby in Now, the past is lived and remembered once again. Her memories stirred by the boxed memorable of her sisters, as well as discovering her sister's Michelle's diaries, leads Libby to join with Lyle and begin to half-heartedly track down people who knew her family before they were murdered. After all, Libby had been 7. But first, she must go see Ben in prison, the first time since he was convicted, she still thinks he is guilty. But he is all she has left, and so she realizes she wants to find out what really happened that night.
As she re-interviews witnesses from the trial, Libby does not really consider what it might mean if she proves Ben did not do it. Because if he didn't, someone else did it.....and whoever that was may not like anything new being dug up now - unless it's to bury Libby. The night in question in novel is dark because whole family have something to hide from one another before the tragedy strikes.
Sharp objects:
This is a truly unique book, not only because of the plot, but main character and the story link up of timelines . This book made readers uncomfortable many times. My discomfort mainly from the actions of the main character and the choices she made. Camille is the kind of person, I had the urge to shake quite often while yelling at her to act like an adult. I believe that she is a well constructed character from the point of view of character psychology.
The plot was also fascinating yet typical. Two girls are brutally murdered in a small town and everything points to a serial killer. Camille, the main character, returns after many years to the town where she grew up to describe these crimes. It sounds like a typical story But here's what the author has done with this simple idea is truly unique. A small town turns out to be saturated with dark secrets and small crimes. Bored rich ladies raise their little ideal children who continue the family tradition of maintaining a strict hierarchy.
We see all this through the eyes of the main character, Camille, who, being daughter of one of the most important women in the town, is a part of this society and, due to her profession as a reporter and an escape from the town many years ago and people labelled her a rebel. At the same time, Camille has her own problems related to both alcohol abuse and deep mental problems. Her problems sometimes prevent her from discovering the truth, but amazingly, sometimes they help her put things into perspective. When truth of the murder came to light and people were put behind bars that was a satisfactory point in the novel.
amycourts's review
challenging
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? No
4.0
If you’ve read one, you know what you’re in for. Flynn writes a good, intense, dark, heavy novel — but she doesn’t diverge from her niche at all.
jennyrbaker's review against another edition
3.0
Gone Girl - 3 stars
Dark Places - 4 stars
Sharp Objects - 3 stars
Dark Places - 4 stars
Sharp Objects - 3 stars
laraynemichelle's review against another edition
Bought this even though i don't have shelf space anymore... Oops.
keep_reading17's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-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
3.0
frasersimons's review
4.0
Pretty incredible. I found each inventive and full of something being communicated to the reader beyond a good story. A view of the world more horrific than events in the story sometimes, and a vulnerability that clarifies the themes.