Reading The Grown Up made me realise that I still hadn’t got around to reading Sharp Objects; so after caving into the “If you liked this…” section on the Kindle, I downloaded it.
This book was Flynn’s debut novel but she was relatively unknown before the Gone Girl saga. It follows Camille Preaker, a journalist who reluctantly goes back to her hometown to investigate two missing girls. She has spent years self harming after the death of her sister which is just part of an unhappy childhood.
But back home she must go, if she wants her name to be associated with career changing ‘breaking headline.’ As is now expected from a Gillian Flynn novel, the young journalist begins to unravel a web of murder that is much closer to home than she could wish.
I must come clean and state that what I thought was the twist, wasn’t in fact the twist. I didn’t pick the novel up for a whole day thinking: How obvious was that, I saw it coming a mile off.
The smugness was soon sucked from within, as I realised I was wrong.
I really have to give Flynn credit, as she really catches you with the unexpected. Especially when all of her audience are anticipating a nice twist.
I can’t wait to see how she’ll catch us out post-Gone Girl.
Section that stayed
“I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It’s covered with words – cook, cupcake, kitty, curls – as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh.”
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