A review by deanna_rigney
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

2.0

I’m no Jessica Fletcher, so if you give me a mystery and I can figure it out fairly early on then it really isn’t much of a mystery. With that said I can’t really describe (destroy ?) this as I would like to without some *spoiler* bits, so if you have your sights set on reading this book then you best stop reading this now. The author has gone all out to give her readers the most unpleasant, depthless characters imaginable with the small exception of our narrator, journalist Camille Preaker, who finds herself back in her loathsome home town to cover a possible serial killer who targets young girls. This has sex, violence, murder, Munchausen by Proxy, teen drugs, alcoholism, a particularly irritating dysfunctional family, and a bit of “Heathers: The Early Years” thrown in for good measure. At one point the author basically used a M. Night Shyamalan twist which seemed obvious, and the obviousness of it came from the over-the-top unbelievable character depiction of Adora, the narrator’s mother. Mommy dearest and her other spawned brat, Camille’s sister, were just too much…TOO MUCH.