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A review by triciab04
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
5.0
I really enjoyed Dark Places. I thought it was a well written, captivating mystery that kept me guessing until the very end. This was my first Gillian Flynn novel and it definietely will not be my last! Seriously why have I not heard of this amazing author before now?! I have truely been missing out!
The characters in this book were so real. Everyone was so raw and this book really showed some of the worst in people. It was really something to still like some of these characters after some of the horrific things they said, thought, or did. I liked that Libby and Ben did grow a little throughout the book but there was never that unrealistic everything and everyone will be pretty and perfect and live happily ever after ending. That just wouldn't work with these characters and I'm so glad the author didn't go that route. I thought it was great that she created all these people that I really cared for and understood and felt compassionate for several of them. They were all flawed and made mistakes and ultimately, one way or another, they payed for those mistakes. It was just brilliantly done!
I thought I had it all figured out early on, I was pretty much patting my own back by half way through, boy was I wrong! I mean technically I had it partially right but there were some definite surprises and twists that I just did not see coming! I love that! It's so bittersweet when you solve the whole plot before the book is over. It's starts out feeling great, like you out smarted someone by figuring it all out ahead of the finish line. Then you get to the end and there's that twinge of disappointment, like "Oh, that really is it?". I was still secretly holding out for a surprise, something to take my ego down a peg and let me know I don't know it all. Dark Places did that for me, it basically said "You think you got it all figured out, don't you? Well.....in yo FACE!", and I enjoyed every minute of it!
The characters in this book were so real. Everyone was so raw and this book really showed some of the worst in people. It was really something to still like some of these characters after some of the horrific things they said, thought, or did. I liked that Libby and Ben did grow a little throughout the book but there was never that unrealistic everything and everyone will be pretty and perfect and live happily ever after ending. That just wouldn't work with these characters and I'm so glad the author didn't go that route. I thought it was great that she created all these people that I really cared for and understood and felt compassionate for several of them. They were all flawed and made mistakes and ultimately, one way or another, they payed for those mistakes. It was just brilliantly done!
I thought I had it all figured out early on, I was pretty much patting my own back by half way through, boy was I wrong! I mean technically I had it partially right but there were some definite surprises and twists that I just did not see coming! I love that! It's so bittersweet when you solve the whole plot before the book is over. It's starts out feeling great, like you out smarted someone by figuring it all out ahead of the finish line. Then you get to the end and there's that twinge of disappointment, like "Oh, that really is it?". I was still secretly holding out for a surprise, something to take my ego down a peg and let me know I don't know it all. Dark Places did that for me, it basically said "You think you got it all figured out, don't you? Well.....in yo FACE!", and I enjoyed every minute of it!