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lydiature_ 's review for:
Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
One thing about Miss Gillian Flynn...she's going to write a well-rounded, character-driven thriller. And one thing about me...I'm going to eat it up.
I realized after the first chapter that I had actually read this back in 10th grade (8 years ago). I was really shocked that I'd forgotten about it until I reached the last 40% of the book. Now I know why. But I want to mention first that this book is good. It's very dark and gruesome. Flynn's characters are all well-rounded. It can be unrealistic to have most characters be psychologically unstable, but Flynn pulled it off. A lot of times with these kind of books, authors will just "wing" disturbing characters by throwing a bunch of random sociopathic traits at them. But you can tell that Flynn did her RESEARCH.
My main issue with this is that the pacing did not match the revelations. The pace was very slow after the 60% mark. We were finding out so many things about the tragic (yet disturbing) murders, and yet the story was going at a snail pace. The end was very unsatisfying (and rushed) and felt a bit uncharacteristic of Libby in my opinion.
All in all, it was a good book. Not my favorite by no means, but I'm still excited to read more books by Flynn.
Lots of weird stuff in here, so definitely look up the trigger warnings.
Audiobook review: 4/5
The woman narrator did a good job. Her voice was actually pleasant (except when she did Patty's dialogue). The male narrator (the one who took care of Ben's POV chapters) was extremely annoying. His voice was extremely monotonous and boring. For his chapters, I switched to my Kindle because i didn’t want to deal with the narrator’s voice.
I realized after the first chapter that I had actually read this back in 10th grade (8 years ago). I was really shocked that I'd forgotten about it until I reached the last 40% of the book. Now I know why. But I want to mention first that this book is good. It's very dark and gruesome. Flynn's characters are all well-rounded. It can be unrealistic to have most characters be psychologically unstable, but Flynn pulled it off. A lot of times with these kind of books, authors will just "wing" disturbing characters by throwing a bunch of random sociopathic traits at them. But you can tell that Flynn did her RESEARCH.
My main issue with this is that the pacing did not match the revelations. The pace was very slow after the 60% mark. We were finding out so many things about the tragic (yet disturbing) murders, and yet the story was going at a snail pace. The end was very unsatisfying (and rushed) and felt a bit uncharacteristic of Libby in my opinion.
All in all, it was a good book. Not my favorite by no means, but I'm still excited to read more books by Flynn.
Lots of weird stuff in here, so definitely look up the trigger warnings.
Audiobook review: 4/5
The woman narrator did a good job. Her voice was actually pleasant (except when she did Patty's dialogue). The male narrator (the one who took care of Ben's POV chapters) was extremely annoying. His voice was extremely monotonous and boring. For his chapters, I switched to my Kindle because i didn’t want to deal with the narrator’s voice.