kattisch 's review for:

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

3.0

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Didn't love this one... it felt like it was perverted for the sake of being perverted - just for the shock value. And to fit into the disturbing and twisted murder mystery genre that Gillian Flynn is famous for. I thought Ben was a terrible character, he was willing to go to jail for 25 years to protect a woman who treated him like crap. Grant it, sex can be a pretty powerful motivator and make people get extremely emotionally attached, specifically when they aren't getting love from anywhere else. When they have a deadbeat drunk for a father and a woman distracted by struggling to save her sinking farm, and raise 4 children with no money. The last 150+ pages were real page turners - that's when the story really took off. I just think there was too much build-up to get there. It bored me. I wanted to hear less of what happened before Libby discovered "what happened that night" and more about the aftermath of the truth coming out. What happened to Crystal? What was it like for Ben to finally get out of prison? Did he go see Diane? Did he go see Libby? Does he ever meet his daughter?