FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice” of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club—a secret secret society obsessed with notorious crimes—locates Libby and pumps her for details. … details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club—for a fee. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started—on the run from a killer.
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Warning: not for those who want to like the characters or have a happy ending!
This was my first introduction to the twisted and unpredictable world of Gillian Flynn . Here’s the book’s opening line: “I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might drop out, meaty and dark…”
Dark Places pulls no punches, and …
Dark Places is, in my opinion, Gillian Flynn’s best work. Her ability to capture the anger of the book’s main character, Libby Day, through her characteristically strong prose is on full display in Dark Places. And Flynn’s prose is what makes her work absolutely riveting.
Dark Places is a standalone novel written by author Gillian Flynn. This is a story of fifteen-year-old Ben Day who is accused of murdering his family, all except seven-year-old Libby Day who grows up with a soul described as “a scribble with fangs.” In Dark Places, all of the characters’ emotions transfer to the reader: Depression, loneliness, …
I bought this book awhile back (shortly after seeing the movie it was based off of), but just now have found extra time to start reading it. I’m about 70 pages in so far and I love Ms. Flynn’s writing style! The way she describes these intense emotions the characters are feeling keeps me on the edge of my seat in anticipation of what comes next. …
Flynn is one of my favorite authors, I loved the way she pieced this book together brilliantly. Even though this was a slow read for me; the beginning of this book was slow. But it is books with the slow beginning that take you on a adventure. As I got really into this read, I was compelled to continue to the explosive end. This book takes you all …
Totally started out thinking I knew it all about this book. A little too dark for me but the end was shocking and I would recommend this book. I liked it much more then Gone Girl.
I spent years treating patients from dysfunctional families, and the small-town (and in-house) dynamics were so true to life I could see it playing out behind my eyelids when I tried to sleep. This made it all the more terrifying; the fact that this could be anyone; a neighbor, a friend, or a lover. Good people do horrendous things. And the …
Let me start with full disclosure—I’m not a Gillian Flynn virgin, whatsoever. In fact, Dark Places, her second book, was something I began and put down in a marathon Flynn session I went on about two summers ago. I began, as many other readers did, with the New York Times bestselling beast of a book—Gone Girl, followed by reading her first book, …
Dark Places is a thriller written by Gillian Flynn, an author I’ve only read once before (Gone Girl), years ago. I recently added books to my TBR that were written by authors I’ve already read — it was time to catch up on some popular fiction and previous good reads. What a roller coast ride this was!
Libby’s family was bludgeoned to death when …
Flynn’s books are always super easy to get immersed in which make them the perfect vacation read.
I don’t know if I have ever disliked a main character as much as I disliked Libby Day, and that was even before she described herself as a liar and a thief. I was very eager to see this story unravel. Ben and Patty’s parts made my heart hurt for …
Loved this… The main characters are flawed in all the right ways… Makes you want to love them and hate them as though you know them.. The storyline is tragic and really well written in such a way you feel as though you are living it alongside Libby… well done…
Dark Places really knocked it out of the park! I liked this one better than Sharp Objects, but my sister preferred Sharp Objects so basically you should just read both books because Flynn really knows how to write characters. There was so much “meat” to this story and it doesn’t drag because it seems we learn something new and exciting every …
Of all of Flynn’s books, this was by far my favorite. Even when I thought I had it figured out… I was wrong!
Certainly lives up to its billing as dark! But if you can stomach revisiting the ’80s “Satanic Panic,” Flynn delivers a twisty, keep-you-guessing tale of women and men doing wrong and (sometimes. much later) trying to make things right.
I don’t even know where to start. Dark Places shows the underbelly of a terrible situation and how the aftermath went wrong… and wrong… and wrong—for decades. The premise and the characters are so well developed and interesting that I couldn’t help but applaud the efforts of Flynn with this deeply unnerving novel and its truly fitting title. …
A very good book! I didn’t want to put it down!
Unraveling the truth is never pretty, but Gillian Flynn’s writing is stunning as she pushes Libby to revisit the past and unearth the lies we tell ourselves. The twists in DARK PLACES were good, the writing was even better.
A must read!
All I can say is that I hope to have this much grit to my writing one day.
The characters are well written but not always likable.