NOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIESFROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRLFresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her … preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
Praise for Sharp Objects
“Nasty, addictive reading.”—Chicago Tribune
“Skillful and disturbing.”—Washington Post
“Darkly original . . . [a] riveting tale.”—People
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Stayed up past my bedtime to finish this book.
It is not for those prone to clutching their pearls; profanity, sex, violence, drugs, alcohol, cutting … the characters are damaged and memorable.
Certainly not what I expected. Thought her book Dark Places was must better.
Not for the faint-hearted! This thriller will stay in your head for a long time. A dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship and all the frightening aspects of a small town that tries to hide its secrets from the world.
It was a suspenseful, dark take on mother/daughter relationships. It was darkly funny and full of twisty, genuinely flawed women.
Great read,
I really like Camille. I enjoyed following around a character who was a very atypical protagonist with her mental health struggles and habitual drinking. She is very raw throughout the story and I think the best part about it was that it was from her perspective. You feel what she feels. You come to understand why she has the issues that she does …
I’d give this book a 2 1/2 stars. The protagonist is unlikable, you don’t wonder why she has no friends. Her story is one of a dysfunctional family taken to a new level; it evolves into a highly unrealistic scenario. None of the characters have any depth.
This book would have been amazing were it not for it’s predictability. The characters were interesting but could have used more depth and background. I did get a sinister feeling, that I believe the author was going for, but it could have been better executed.
Also whacked out characters but an interesting read. This author likes messed up characters obviously.
Liked the book. Did not like the movie.
I love when a book uses the “charm” of a small town as a way to hide the evil within. Hauntingly familiar for those of us who revisit where we grew up and get flooded with the memories of pain and virtue. Camille is a tragic treasure.
Really good.
Dark, but still a book that was hard to put down.
My favorite Gillian Flynn novel. Suitably dark.
I read this for a book club, which is maybe the only reason I didn’t put it down after a few chapters – not because the mystery wasn’t compulsive and consuming, but because this is one of the most disturbing books I’ve ever picked up. That may not be saying much since I don’t often gravitate towards thrillers like this one, with slow-burning plots …
Never would have guessed the ending!
Enjoyed most of the book but it moved slow for me.
Very unpredictable and a twister page turner. I loved the development of the characters.
If you haven’t read Gillian Flynn and you love twisty plots then this will be up your alley and is a fantastic crime thriller.
If you are familiar with Gillian Flynn’s works then maybe you’ll relate to what I’m about to say. While my words stand try on this being a fantastic crime thriller the ending is very predictable. I say predictable because …
Hands down, one of the best books I have ever read.