amiasmoon 's review for:

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I was in a reading slump, everything I read just felt boring. I wanted a well-written thriller that thrilled me, Sharp Objects did exactly that. A story about sickness to death, toxic mothers, true crime and not knowing how to resolve any of those. Camille’s life and the crimes she is investigating slowly blur together. 

You’ll hate Camille but in some moments you can’t help but sympathize with her.

Her fucking John disguised me. I have wondered how people do some bad things with no remorse, she just doesn’t think about it. I could say the same about the rest of her family. Adora only thought of how nice it felt to enforce sickness or death. It wasn’t super surprising that she was the killer but it made perfect sense. There were so many parallels.

The story makes it clear how bad the police are. Straight up incompetent.

The scene where Richard saw Camille’s cuts made me ache.

It packs a lot into little pages. I wish we had more newspapers with what she wrote. I also wish there was a more dramatic ending because it is more of learning what happens but not experiencing with what happened.