Sharp Objects: A Novel

Gillian Flynn

Sep 2006 · Sold by Crown

About this ebook

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FIRST NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL

“Riveting.”—PEOPLE
“A terrific debut . . . elevated by sharp writing and sharper insights.”—STEPHEN KING
“Keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.”—CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Fresh 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 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.

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Ratings and reviews

I had a hard time when I first started reading Sharp Objects because it was very dark. Not only about what was going on in the little town, but also what you learned of the main characters life and how she coped in her troubled childhood. Once you get past, or get used to, that darkness, this book becomes a carwreck that you cannot peel your eyes away from. From the start, it plummets into a black hole and you hope you come out unscathed. Full of twists!

Pretty predictable end for me. The beginning felt really unnecessary and off-topic at first but it tied things together and helped wrap everything up nicely. I think I hated every character in this story, except our MC's boss and his wife.

What a horrific existence this poor main character has been enduring for far too long and no matter how many times she thinks perhaps she’s made it through the other side the storm pummels down on her and with hardly any support or safe spaces to fall her support system is nearly nonexistent so it’s hard to to feel so much compassion and see the strength this woman has within her

About the author

Gillian Flynn is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl, for which she wrote the Golden Globe–nominated screenplay; the New York Times bestsellers Dark Places and Sharp Objects; and a novella, The Grownup. A former critic for Entertainment Weekly, she lives in Chicago with her husband and children.