Title: Sharp Objects

Author: Gillian Flynn

Publisher: Broadway Books 2006

Genre: Psychological Thriller

Pages: 272

Rating: 2/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Women Authors; Ebook;

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.

Sharp Objects was this month's book club selection. I found Flynn's other book Gone Girl to be very interesting. I had heard from many bloggers that this one was also good. So, we gave it a try. And I have to say that I was a bit disappointed. I won't give away the twists and turns, but I will say that I saw most of them coming. The story was a bit contrived and predictable. As to the characters, I hated every single one of them. They all seemed fake or caricatures of real people. At a certain point, I would have loved for everyone to just say what they were thinking. Instead, characters dance around each other in a very frustrating way. Even the horrors didn't seem real because of how characters reacted to them. I just was not impressed at all. It seems that I am all but done with Flynn's work. I think I'll move on to something else...