Book Review: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

 ABOUT:

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. 

For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims — a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.

My Thoughts 

I have been a Gillian Flynn fan since reading both Gone Girl and Dark Places. Sharp Objects did not disappoint at all.

Camille Preaker was a journalist with a PAST. A past that she was intent on getting away from by living and working in Chicago. A story about the mysterious and gruesome death of two little girls in her home town of Wind Gap made her end up back HOME. A place where she had no desire to return to.

Camille's return home was not a welcome sight for her mother Adora with whom she shared a very strained relationship. Upon returning and meeting her half sister Amma, Camille soon realized that everything in Wind Gap is not as they seem. Something was amiss...When the truth is revealed however, only the strong will survive. Meanwhile Camille had many demons that she grappled with.

This story was dark, emotional with some level of trauma. Camille, Amma and Adora's characters were do complex but the author really brought them to life.

This was a well written book. Definitely a MUST read.