With Gillian Flynn’s books, it’s pretty difficult to tell when a truth is really a lie or a lie, a painful and shocking truth. She’s done it again for me with Dark Places, albeit Gone Girl, the first of her novels that I’ve read, actually came last. I found myself frustrated and screaming like a madman every time a chapter ends and hangs like a caramelized apple on a tree I just couldn’t bite into—however hard I try to, however hungry I am.
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Dark Places, like Gone Girl, is a fast-paced mystery thriller that made me sick in the stomach at some point and crazy guessing who killed whom at every chapter. I veered away from reading murder mysteries and crime novels for a while, for fear of getting half crazy and obsessing about the evil within us humans, but Ms. Flynn successfully brought me back to the genre wagon.
I’m thrilled to know two of her books will be turned into Hollywood films—I would have to check if Sharp Objects will be, too. I must say I can’t wait to see Ben Affleck and Nicholas Hoult play the part of two of her major characters, and the full casting looks terrific. But with her books, it was the women who reign supreme. They quite put the dagger in the heart of the stories and plot the sickness in our heads—if not literally. If you like kick-ass, complicated (and twisted) female characters, you better grab her dark materials and start preparing yourself for one hell of a ride. Dark Places left me guessing—as is with Gone Girl—with every page turn. Every plot twist had me dumbfounded, whispering, “She did it again, she always could”.
That’s miss Flynn for you (and for me): full of surprises, five-star story telling, and fuck-in-the-head plotting. How she does it, I don’t want to know. I just hope she’d write and come up with more.
That’s miss Flynn for you (and for me): full of surprises, five-star story telling, and fuck-in-the-head plotting. How she does it, I don’t want to know. I just hope she’d write and come up with more.
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