I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.

Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who've long forgotten her.

The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for details-proof they hope may free Ben-Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, she'll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club . . . and maybe she'll admit her testimony wasn't so solid after all.

As Libby's search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby's doomed family members-including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started-on the run from a killer.

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Format: CD
Author: Flynn, Gillian
ISBN: 9780804164221
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 5.97 x 1.19
Number Of Pages: 11
Publication Year: 2013

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Alaura P. - 7 years 4 months ago

Gillian Flynn has released three novels: Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl, in that order. She is undoubtedly best known for her novel Gone Girl, which was turned into a blockbuster film last year. As someone who has read and enjoyed all of Flynn's novels, I believe one stands head and shoulders above the rest. Dark Places is a novel about a family with an ominous past. We see the story through three perspectives: Libby Day, a woman who survived the murder of her family when she was just a girl, Patty Day, her struggling single mother, and Ben Day, her brother and the prime suspect in her family's murder. As the story switches between these three characters, we find ourselves being dragged along a twisting path of lies, struggles, surprises, and, yes, dark places. Flynn's prose is enchantingly grim and grimy, winding its way into the dark corners of your mind, grabbing you tight and refusing to release you, even when she is showing you something you may not want to see. Dark Places is hard to read, yet easy. Hard because of the undesirable people you will meet and the and dark situations you will encounter, but easy because of Flynn's beautiful word weaving, world building, and heartbreaking characters that you just have to see through to the end. You will not find yourself where you thought you would be.
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