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A review by dunnadam
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
2.0
They said this was dark. [b:Gone Girl|21480930|Gone Girl|Gillian Flynn|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1406511734s/21480930.jpg|13306276] was dark, this was pitch black. Ritual sacrifice, child molestation and jokes about babies in a blender pitch black.
The pacing was good, more so in the present tense than in the past, I finished the book quickly. I would agree there were no likable characters, though they were all vivid.
There's something incredibly disturbing about a mystery where when you get to the end, after searching for answers for all those pages, you come across something worse than you could have imagined.
On the ending, I'm reminded of the last scene in the movie Fargo where the woman cop comes across the men shoving a body into a wood chipper and she asks them, incredulously, "And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't you know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it."
I don't understand it, and I don't want to.
The pacing was good, more so in the present tense than in the past, I finished the book quickly. I would agree there were no likable characters, though they were all vivid.
There's something incredibly disturbing about a mystery where when you get to the end, after searching for answers for all those pages, you come across something worse than you could have imagined.
On the ending, I'm reminded of the last scene in the movie Fargo where the woman cop comes across the men shoving a body into a wood chipper and she asks them, incredulously, "And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't you know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it."
I don't understand it, and I don't want to.