Sharp Objects

Sharp Objects
Author: Gillian Flynn

A newspaper reporter at a small Chicago newspaper is sent on assignment to her old hometown in Wind Gap, Mo. to find out why young girls keep showing up dead.

This was a really quick read. I found it very enthralling, especially the parts where the main character described why she cut herself when she was younger. I never understood cutting, so reading a character trying to describe why they do it and what they are thinking when they do it, helps to understand why young girls do it.

That isn’t the main part of the story, but just a subplot that really helps the reader get inside the main character’s head while she is trying to work on the murder story for her paper in a town she did not want to return. She ran away to get away from her mother, but she was back staying with her mother and her young half-sister that her mother adores, while also dealing with the haunting reminders of her dead younger sister that her mother obviously loved more than her.

There is a lot going on in the story, but it is very well written. My only complaint was I knew who committed the murders about halfway through the book. I didn’t guess the full reason, but it wasn’t surprising when I found out the full reason behind it. Gillian Flynn is a writer for Entertainment Weekly. She reviews television. I wonder if watching and reviewing crime shows gave her some ideas for the book, but from watching my fair share of them myself, I think that was what helped me guess the killer.

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