Wednesday 19 April 2017

SHARP OBJECTS

By Gillian Flynn.


Wow! What a great read!
I enjoyed this one as much as Dark Places.
It's such an atmospheric (hm, not sure if that's the right word, but then again, yes, there's an atmosphere there, just different kind; no period drama dresses and décor, more like shivers, creepy sounds in ana abandoned building, smell of unknown...) read, you can nearly feel the sticky heat on your skin, you can smell bourbon and taste dust in your mouth... summer in a small town, where bad things happen...




Camille works as a reporter in Chicago. When two little girls found murdered in her native town of Wind Gap, she is sent there in search of scoop.

Gruesome as they are, murders are only one part of the Camille's journey. The other part is that she has to face her own past, which keeps more secrets than any police file.
Camille's sister Marian died when they were just kids, to add to the tragedy, Marian was their mum's favourite. And nothing changed since. Adore, their mother, barely acknowledges Camille, never mind to show any affection or love... Adora finds comfort in her other daughter, Amma.
Amma is only 13, but manipulative, challenging and has secrets of her own.

Home, sweet home, childhood memories and teddy bears? No, not in this book. It's the very definition of "dysfunctional". And there's nothing good in it, there's nobody to turn to...

What is it like to come home and be greeted by your mother whose next question is: "When are you leaving?"
Your teen half sister has gone far beyond her age, she is quite familiar with sex, drink, drugs. She is bossy, and some say she is a bully. Yet, she plays dolls and has tantrums over not getting a toy she wanted. She can also be so tender, so nice... Which of that is real Amma? And what is troubling her?...
Camille is a "cutter". She hurts herself. She has been "clean" for a while now. But will she resist and fight off the demons in the sticky heat of Wind Gap?

And, after all, who killed the little girls? And why?
Could it really be someone from this little town, where everyone knows everyone's business? What are the chances of a stranger wandering into the area and doing same thing within a nine months space?...
Small towns never change, do they? Your former bitchy schoolmates are still the same bitches that stab each other in the back at every opportunity they get. And those who ever been nice to you, they seem to fade away in the poisoness air of the small town.

In a hope to find out more and produce a solid story for her paper, Camille befriends Richard, a police officer from Kansas. Richard has been sent to help with the investigation. Will this casual connection of two outsiders bring them close to each other? And is Richard really interested in Camille or is he on his own agenda, simply using Camille's loneliness?
Will Wind Gap loosen up its grip on Camille and let her go free?...

Flynn is a master of portraying dysfunctional families and relationships. She describes them so naturally, so effortlessly, which makes them even more horrible. It's like a bright light exposes every details of ugliness.
Flynn is truly great when it comes to creating a dark, twisted atmosphere, depicting the characters and submerging a reader into the middle of creepy and frightening substance of the story.
It is like walking in a dark corridor: you are scared, you don't know where you are going but you keep going, because that little flickering light ahead is the only thing you know for sure and you want to get to it and see what's actually is there....

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