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A review by aeoliandeductress
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
4.0
I actually read this as part of The Complete Works of Gillian Flynn and therefore have been keeping my progress over there, but feel it is only right to rate each book separately.
Dark, clever, and creative but not quite up to Gone Girl's craftmanship. Dark Places is a well woven story with almost no pure characters, each tainted with significant and generally criminal flaws. The story was well researched, drawing on the time period of the Satanic Panic and reminding me of the real-life criminal case of those 3 boys in Arkansas who were only recently released. It's just the writing itself did not flow quite as smooth as Gone Girl- there were extraneous lines and redundancies that even in a first person story were just unneeded.
I am curious where the story goes from here- how each character will turn out, whether Ben will actually be released or not, and so forth. I guessed a portion of the ending but not all of it. I admit, I did try to look up the ending about halfway through, simply for the fact that not knowing was keeping my brain humming rather than sleeping- a regular problem for this reader. This book is worth the time, but not worth the purchase for me.
Dark, clever, and creative but not quite up to Gone Girl's craftmanship. Dark Places is a well woven story with almost no pure characters, each tainted with significant and generally criminal flaws. The story was well researched, drawing on the time period of the Satanic Panic and reminding me of the real-life criminal case of those 3 boys in Arkansas who were only recently released. It's just the writing itself did not flow quite as smooth as Gone Girl- there were extraneous lines and redundancies that even in a first person story were just unneeded.
I am curious where the story goes from here- how each character will turn out, whether Ben will actually be released or not, and so forth. I guessed a portion of the ending but not all of it. I admit, I did try to look up the ending about halfway through, simply for the fact that not knowing was keeping my brain humming rather than sleeping- a regular problem for this reader. This book is worth the time, but not worth the purchase for me.