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I am bailing on this; the mood/tone and impending sense of doom has me scrambling for air and sunshine. I did an internet search for spoilers so I could know what happens and now I am glad that I will stop reading this. #hailthebail #lifestooshort #timeforacozyhappybookplease ! #Oct2025 Book99

I have had this book on my tbr since reading Gone Girl and seeing that the author has lived in many places that I, too, have lived. Today, I looked at my Libby for audios-available-now and decided this title works for this time of year. 🗡️🎃👻🔪

Blimey 😳😳 🦷 🦷 that ending!
Super twisted and dark!

In need of a lighthearted one now 😂

strongly recommended to me by my #tattooartist

#thriller

#3 of 2025!
Started: 2/1/25
Finished: 2/9/25
8 Days

#26.2024

(2006) It's the kind of thriller where the lead returns home after a long absence and investigates a murder only to find themself investigating their own past. The lead in this case has made some spectacularly bad choices and continues to make bad choices still. It's all very sordid, and finally lost me when the lead went partying with her kid sister. Others have loved it, and I think I understand its gritty appeal, but it was a miss for me.

A slow start - I didn‘t love many (any?) of the characters, which made it hard to get into. But it picked up, and the ending was surprising. (19)
⭐️: 3/5

Creepy, disturbing, and unhinged with imagery that will stay with me for a while.. bleh 4/5 I‘ll be binging the rest of show today. Highly recommend check TW before reading if triggered, otherwise go in blind!

I don't know ... I liked the plot in general but some things were just too much for me. The ending was kind of rushed.

“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.”

#InsaneProtag 😳🪒 🩸 🔪 😱

#ItTakesAllKinds

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

One of those books I just could not put down. Small town drama, class disparity, murders, pain, violence, inter generational trauma, care wrapped up and delivered in a masterful voice. Finished it mid morning in the bath, felt fitting given Camille‘s situation at that time. I‘m hooked and look forward to reading more Flynn.

Getting ready for an interesting read and half expecting really dark things to happen

Long lead to a quick ending, but still a wild ride of a story!

This was….deliciously twisted! My Goodreads account says I read this a few years ago but I have no memory of it. And how would I forget something so unsettling and depraved? There is some serious trauma and mental illness going on here (trigger warnings galore) and I really enjoyed (enjoyed? Not really sure that‘s the right word) watching all the pieces fall into place. I really wish Gillian Flynn would write more books! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Flynn is no one-hit wonder. Even though Sharp Objects didn‘t quite live up to her most popular book, it was still good. Highly readable, and darker, if you can believe it. This book mixes together the “beautiful woman with dark secrets” idea with the essence of Southern Gothic, and the results are impressive. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/sharp-objects-gillian-flynn/

The writing is ok, story is entertaining but my favorite part was the ending, gave the book that little extra that it was missing.

Another potential Thriller Corner selection.

This novel, written by Gillian Flynn, is about a journalist who returns to work after a stay in the psych ward for an assignment in her hometown. But the little girls showing up dead cause suppressed memories from her childhood to resurface, and she finds herself within the investigation.
I really like this book, I think it's very engaging and suspenseful

10/10 recommend! Fair warning this book deals with heavy topics, such as child loss and murder. It‘s well written, suspenseful and keeps you guessing. The author gilllian Flynn has a true gift. Read it!

And excellent thriller and character-exploration with an eerie atmosphere the whole way through. Well written, complex characters, an engaging plot with some twists, and a small-town that feels like it's right out of the midwest. Must read!!

Another slow reading month for me. I think I have a handle (for the most part) on work and life. Plus I finished Grey‘s Anatomy 😅 My favorite this month was a tie with 2 4 ✨ Sharp Objects which I read really fast, and Fake it Til You Bake it.

4✨I was engrossed in this story unable to put it down. Camille comes from a small town. Reluctantly she agrees to go back to write about it. There is one girl dead and another missing. She mostly partners with the police officer trying to figure it out. While there is all sorts of twists throughout the book I had an idea that the person who did it was the killer. I didn‘t like the cutting, heavy drinking, sex scenes, or drug use in this story.

Started the tagged book while I tried “ColorStreet” nails. My friend introduced them to me and I think I‘m in love! Fast easy nails that you peel apply and boom done! This is my test set that came with two strips and that fit 4 nails! Yay. So cute! 😍🥰💛

Interesting book, some aspects I didn‘t like but the mystery was cool. I watched the show and I think they did a better job but overall it was a good read.

weak pick, because while I was largely entertained by this one, I can‘t say I was all that impressed :/ I read the whole thing in a sitting, so the usual intrigue and pace of Flynn was as interesting as ever. I predicted the outcome very early on though… Still. Seeing HOW it all came together was as fun as learning whodunnit :)

Book 112🎧 3.5⭐️

Super creepy family! I definitely want to watch the show now to see how they are portrayed!

Got some “We have always lived in the castle” vibes from this🏰

Very interesting book and kept me guessing. Gillian Flynn had a knack for writing characters that you hate to love and love to hate. All in all kept me interested and amused.

Got a couple of wisdom teeth out today. While in recovery mode listening to horror movies on Netflix and finishing this book.

Wow….some parts were predictable, but so twisted that I still wasn‘t sure about the details. Normally any predictability would ruin it for me, but it was so dark and intense that I couldn‘t put it down anyways. Same thing with having an oftentimes unlikable main character, it still managed to keep me hooked.

My May #BookSpin landed on “A book on my actual TBR shelves“ and I chose a book I wanted to read for a while, A Perfect Blank by Rye Duran, a SciFi dystopian YA novel in verse. I would've liked more attention paid to the trans personality of the main character but even so, I enjoyed it. A pick!

Since the above is not in the Litsy database, I tagged instead Sharp Objects: finished a few days ago it got me a #BookSpinBingo.😉

@TheAromaOfBooks

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Objectively, I feel like Flynn is a good writer. I enjoyed Gone Girl when I read it a few years back. And this one was written well enough, but it was extraordinarily graphic and icky in ways that made me very uncomfortable. I'm not usually squeamish about most things in books, but something about this one just didn't sit well with me. I don't think I'll be watching the miniseries.

So glad I never watched the show/movie. Went into this one not knowing anything about it. I think I've found my groove in audiobooks finally. Definitely enjoying listening to thrillers and mysteries.

The room I was ushered into was obscenely white with glaring splashes of color, like a mischievous child had been finger painting.

Ninety degrees but the heat made me feel safe, like walking underwater.

The booze hits me fast, probably because that was how I was drinking it.

Unabridged Audiobook (6/10):
I knew less than an hour into this book who was guilty of the murders of two girls in this rural Missouri town. To me, so much of this story DRAGS because of this. No genuine mystery, but cool insights into human emotions and actions associated with them.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 This was a great thriller. Some twists and interesting characters.. I couldn‘t put it down and I highly recommend!!

I read this book in a day. I could not put it down. I had seen the show before I read it and I really wish I hadn‘t because the book provided so much more. Almost all of the characters were female and they were all so flawed, so beautiful, so amazing.

My all time favorite book by far. The twists at the end will take your breath away. A flawed and sometimes unreliable narrator being forced to confront her past is an amazing read

Watching Sharp Objects which I read a couple months ago. Amy Adams settles right in as Camille Preaker, but I‘m going to have a hard time buying that Chris Messina is anyone but Danny from Mindy Project.

This book has an awesome athmosphere! Flynn writes small town disturbing atmosphere so well!!! The story and writing style worked really well in Finnish as well. The characters were so believable and the story just kept creeping me out. I absolutely loved this (and hated it on the right level as well 😂). If you haven't read this yet you reallu should!

#Maycharacters #Maladjusted
@Eggs & @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Oh boy! If you know you know😒, Camille Preaker from Sharp Objects, this woman. Let's just say she is the ultimate example of maladjusted.

Day 3: #Manipulates #MayCharacters

Still need to this. 😅

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

"Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed".

Wow, this book is intense. The characters are all so damaged. It‘s a bizarre rollercoaster told from the perspective of someone who is emotionally stunted and 3 bourbons deep (at least).