Book Review - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

This book was a gift from my niece. 

 It isn't the usual genre that I read, 

but I figured I'd give it a try. 

This is the first book I've read by 

Gillian Flynn and I've never seen the

movie Gone Girl.

Let me preface this review by saying this

was a graphic and disturbing book on 

so many levels.  At first it reminded me

of the type of writing you'd find in a V.C. Andrews

 book, but as the story progressed it took on a 

whole other level of wickedness and creepiness!!!

Camille Preaker is a reporter from Chicago

 who is sent back to her hometown of  

Wind Gap, MO to cover the story of a missing girl.

She is not looking forward to going back to the

town where she grew up and as the book progresses

you understand more and more why!

There's an abundance of hatefulness throughout this book.  
Definitely mental illness, self-harm, alcoholism, drug abuse and 
promiscuous behavior (and that's putting it lightly!!)

You learn about Camille and what her life was like in 

this small town growing up.  You can connect the dots

as to why she has such pain in her life due to
 the awful experiences she has gone through. 

So many characters in this book could use a 

good therapist and hospitalization.  

It's just one messed up person after another!

I don't want to give away spoilers, which is why I 

haven't gone into much detail about the plot, but

just know you will feel more and more uncomfortable

with what you're reading  chapter after chapter.

Surprisingly, this is a short book which packs a lot 

of story line into the pages.  If you enjoy dark

mysteries and psychological thrillers, you will 

most likely enjoy Sharp Objects.  If you're more

faint-hearted (like me) you will be disturbed by this book.

For some reason after I finished this book I thought

about 'how would this be turned into a movie?'

since I already knew Gone Girl was a movie.

Then I learned Sharp Objects was made into 

an HBO mini-series!  If you've seen the mini-series
leave me a comment to let me know how they 
incorporated this book onto the screen!
I'm giving this book 3 out of 5 stars only because the
author did weave a strange story that kept you guessing. 
I guess the psychological thriller genre just isn't my
cup of tea, so to speak.