
Almost
everyone I know has read GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn, and it’s no real surprise
because that book is ballin’. Last week, I was looking for new reads and after
crusing through my local library’s available e-books, I checked-out SHARP
OBJECTS aka The Creepiest Book I’ve Read In Recent Years.
The
main character’s name is Camille and she isn’t your standard journalist. Fresh
from a stint at a psych hospital, Camille is sent from her urban environment
back to the hick-ish place where she grew up, and she isn’t too psyched about
it, to say the least. But her newspaper needs a scoop and there’s been a couple
of child murders in her hometown, so off she goes. Naturally, she’ll be staying
with her mother, which, if she were any normal mother would be fine, but
Camille’s mother is a total freak show. A neurotic and cold woman who’s more
concerned with her youngest daughter, a thirteen-year-old, than she is with
Camille. It didn’t take more than a few pages of their interaction to realize
that Camille probably wasn’t hugged enough as a kid. Any by enough, I mean at
all.
Camille
inserts herself in the investigation and then Ms. Flynn does what Ms. Flynn
does—she tells a story with so many twists and turns that you never know what’s
going to happen next. I can’t really go into detail about why SHARP OBJECTS is
so freaking creepy without spoiling things, but I can say that it’s the kind of
book that stays with you for a long time…whether you want it to or not. *shudders*
If
you’ve ever seen the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” you know that Jason
Segel’s character is in charge of playing “dark and ominous tones” for a
CSI-ish TV show, and if there were to be a soundtrack to SHARP OBJECTS, they
would most certainly include dark and ominous tones. Like, for the entire book.
With no breaks. Ever. So if you like the sounds of that (ha) then pick up SHARP
OBJECTS. But…err…do it with caution, if you’re a bit of a wimp like me.
Happy
Friday, Book-clubbers!