Gillian Flynn- Sharp Objects I read Gillian Flynn’s three novels in 9 days during a particularly slow week at school. When the teacher would stop talking or give us free time I immediately opened my computer and threw myself into Flynn’s sickening, dark narrative. Although Gone Girl and Dark Places were fantastically disquieting and equally enjoyable, Sharp Objects, to me, stands out as Flynn’s best so far. Camille Preaker was only 13 when her younger sister died of some unknown illness. Living in a family where her outwardly regal mother obsessed over the death, Camille’s grief was dealt with by carving words into her own skin. It’s gory, morbid and more than a little disturbing, but not angsty in the least. Flash forward 10 years …show more content…
Insanity ensues. The characters and the stories they have to tell will make you cringe, shiver, and think about the people you surrond yourself with. Camille isn’t a shining heroine, she’s supremely screwed up, just trying her best to make sense of all the strange events around her. In comparison with Mrs. Flynn's two other books, whose characters are more tough sure of themselves and are just bad people, this one pictures a character who every reader can connect with and feel for and maybe identify themselves with. I think that is why this book is so strangely relatable. For me, the most remarkable aspect of this book is that Gillian Flynn succeeds in creating nasty women. I am so used to books where “strong women” are ladies in fantastic outfits that talk, think and fight like men, delicate little homebodies with surprising reserves of strenth, or raging nightmares. Not so in Sharp Objects, the women of Wind Gap are both victims and perpetrators, they are promiscuous and abusive, self-destructive and violent. In a world where women are victimised every single day, this book takes a completely different outlook, and it is deliciously