murder mystery
Camille has escaped her rotten childhood and small hometown by becoming a newspaper reporter in Chicago. But, she has been assigned a story about a possible serial killer back in that hometown and has to go "back home" to cover the story.
Amy's Review
I was not looking forward to reading this one but it was a Book Club book. I had enjoyed Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl because of the way it was crafted. But, I heard that Sharp Objects had more disturbing characters. The sick characters had really bothered me in Gone Girl. So, I hesitantly decided to read this novel despite knowing it would make me uncomfortable. As far as mysteries go (of which I’m not a huge fan), this one interested me and I kept reading to find out the gory details. However, I had deduced the two most likely guilty parties by page 69. So, it wasn’t nearly as complex as Gone Girl. It was more like a terrible news story about which you want to read for some closure but you get more upset the more you read. I could not empathize with the actions or feelings of most of the people in the book—they were so odd and behaviorally challenged. But, it was about what I expected after reading Gone Girl and understanding the author’s tendency to fill her novel with unwell people. I really have no desire to read anything else by Flynn.
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