Book: Sharp Objects

 Book: Sharp Objects

Author: Gillian Flynn

Pages: 254

This is my 166th read for the year

This is what Amazon says (feeling lazy today)

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 vitims - 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.

This was just an okay book.  I go back and forth with Flynn's books, but this one was a miss for me.  I figured out what was going on pretty early in the book.  I didn't like a single character.  Camille's sister is 13 but the way it read, it was more like a 19 year old.  It was a bit much.  The "shocker" at the end of the book was poorly executed.  By that time I didn't even care who did it.  Overall it was just disturbing and just a so-so read.

Stars: 3