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Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
When I want a nuanced, troubled, relatable female character with family troubles and living in the mid-west, I go to Gillian Flynn.
Dark Places is unexpectedly funny, seriously dark, and heart-wrenchingly heinous. Libby, like most of Flynn's character's is an unemployed klepto, relatable, and bubbling with anger and memories of the past.
I didn't at all expect the Angel of Debt to be the murderer of Patty and Debby, Diondra was an easy guess, but learning that Ben was merely a spectator, and enabler of Michelle's death was a horrifically cold discovery. Especially because a lot of what he did was for his baby or to impress a girlfriend that didn't care all that much for him.
"I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out."
Dark Places is unexpectedly funny, seriously dark, and heart-wrenchingly heinous. Libby, like most of Flynn's character's is an unemployed klepto, relatable, and bubbling with anger and memories of the past.
I didn't at all expect the Angel of Debt to be the murderer of Patty and Debby, Diondra was an easy guess, but learning that Ben was merely a spectator, and enabler of Michelle's death was a horrifically cold discovery. Especially because a lot of what he did was for his baby or to impress a girlfriend that didn't care all that much for him.
"I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out."