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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.😉

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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. 😅

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"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).

Woke up to a bunch of snow on the ground. 🧐🌨
Finally sinking into this book. I‘ve actually never read anything by Gillian Flynn 🤐 which is strange because I will read any book recommended by Gillian Flynn. I paid an extra dollar for this version over the HBO TV cover. Enjoying so far, took me a few pages to slow down my brain enough for the noir writing style

I was supposed to spend today reading my February #BookSpin for the last day of #MarvellousMarch but instead I finished watching the Sharp Objects mini series. Very well done, although I think the ending is obscure enough to make those who haven‘t read the book, pick it up. Which miiiight have been the intention? 🤪🧐

@One_With_Books Thank you so much for your #LitsyLoveSpringSwap box that I definitely didn't open early!! 😂 I'm totally in love with the super soft llama socks!!! Happy spring!!

Thanks so much for hosting @Bookgoil @rsteve388 !!!

Compelling read!

My first book of 2021 🎉 This book was very intriguing. I did see the end coming but there were a lot of details to be filled in. I was absolutely hooked from the start! I wanted to know every detail about every character. 📖 I do suggest looking up trigger warnings 😊 Can't wait to dive into the show!

Such a great pick from @LapReader for #newyearwhodis 🎉 Can't wait to read another from your list! @monalyisha

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Finished this audio this morning. Starting the series now!

Unsettling... I'm not convinced I'll watch the series

Such a slow burn. With a twist in the tale which changes everything. I really liked the main character Camille. She was so real in her damage. LMPBC#9
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Such a slow burn. With a twist in the tale which changes everything. I really liked the main character Camille. She was so real in her damage. LMPBC#9
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I thought this was a well-written book for the most part. By 54% though, I had hunches about the ending and I was right. I like being surprised by endings, but I thought this was a decent thriller. 🙂

I was interested in a book that was kind of sick and creepy, and this did deliver somewhat on that. But I'm wondering if Flynn hates women or if she was trying to paint a picture of a hometown that would fuck anyone up. Aside from two women from outside of the narrator's hometown, all the females in this book were portrayed as manipulative and vindictive. Most of them seemed more caricature than character. The denouement felt rushed. ⬇

Another that sat for far too long... as it‘s title suggests it deals with sharp topics, brutal murders, town secrets, uncovering the truth, and the pain associated with this tragedy. Although this is tough, it‘s handled in a fast-paced and well written way, which keeps you interested and attempting to unlock the secret to the end. I *had* my suspicions, but was still shocked at the end. ⚠️❗️🤔#psychologicalthriller #murdermystery #recentlyread

I found this book wildly difficult to get into, which is unusual for any kind of murder mystery thrillers for me (I normally binge them). Once it got going I enjoyed it but I originally picked up this book because I was told the ending was shocking! Unpredictable! Gasp worthy! And I did not have that experience personally. It might be that my expectations were unrealistic, but my overall experience with this read was hit and miss.

5/5 couldn‘t put it down, dark and twisted

Gonna settle in and start this today

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What a dark & twisted tale!

This novel has popped up twice this past week...I‘m taking it as a sign to make this my next read as I clean out the Kindle backlog. #BookishProblems 📚 #GoodProblems 📚 #MountTBR

#AugustAuthors #GillianFlynn

Gone Girl is probably Gillian Flynn‘s most famous book but for me this one is the creepiest. (All her books are creepy to me. ) #AugustAuthors

First Gillian Flynn and I have to say now I'm interested in reading the others (only watched Gone Girl, plan on watching this series too).
Layers and layers of trauma, expected since it's Flynn. As grotesque as it was there was a sort of beauty in it & sense.
I never like judging mysteries by if you can guess whodunit, but for those who want to know, this one kept me wondering- so many plausible suspects, which is a chill in and of itself.