Fiction: Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn

In the end, I wound up liking this book. But if you had to choose only one of her books to read, Sharp Objects is by far the better.

It took me a while to really get involved in the story. And it didn’t have the really intense (and awesome) imagery that Sharp Objects had, nor the inviting main character. The mystery seemed much more ordinary to me / not as creative.

However, at a certain point, I really couldn’t put it down. And even the things about it I was disappointed in were still well-written. Similarly to Sharp Objects, however, there is a lot of really, really icky family stuff. So, you know, if you can’t handle that, well, you may want to avoid this.

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