A review by ginger_curmudgeon
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

dark mysterious

3.25

The Grownup is a brief ghost story. At first I didn’t understand why it’s only 61 pages, but after reading it, I appreciate that it is so short. 

It might have been nice, though, to have another 20-40 pages to flesh some things about more. Maybe the father or more about the house or the mother. I suppose she left that all to the reader’s imagination though. 

There’s a cyclical feel to how Flynn tells her story. You’re left not knowing who is real, what is real, or what to believe. If she a continued in this way for the length of a full novel, it would have grown old quickly. 

I was a little surprised, but not disappointed, by all of the talk about handjobs in the beginning of the book. I found it amusing.