A young girl is the only survivor of a family massacre at a rural farmhouse, and her fractured recollections of the night convict her older brother; years down a troubled road later, she begins to rethink her memories in Gillian Flynn's Dark Places.
After the success of Gone Girl, Flynn's earlier novels are getting another look. This might be my favorite thus far, an inky-black story with often unpleasant characters, but fascinating throughout. The story flashes back and forth in time, from multiple points of view, and covers topics from heavy metal Satanism to farm failures to contemporary cults of morbid celebrity.
Flynn is a very solid writer whose dark imaginings aren't for all tastes, though I find the novels worthwhile.
I borrowed this from a lending library in Florida where my in-laws snowbird, and read it all that week.
After the success of Gone Girl, Flynn's earlier novels are getting another look. This might be my favorite thus far, an inky-black story with often unpleasant characters, but fascinating throughout. The story flashes back and forth in time, from multiple points of view, and covers topics from heavy metal Satanism to farm failures to contemporary cults of morbid celebrity.
Flynn is a very solid writer whose dark imaginings aren't for all tastes, though I find the novels worthwhile.
I borrowed this from a lending library in Florida where my in-laws snowbird, and read it all that week.
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