Book Review, Dark Places, Fiction, Gillian Flynn, SephiPiderWitch

Dark Places – Gillian Flynn

Dark PlacesHaving read the other two books by Gillian, the last one (though I think this is actually her second book) was a given.  Gillian Flynn has rapidly soared to my top list of authors.  I bow deeply to any mind twisted enough to create some of the characters and story lines that she does. That said, I have to say that Dark Places was probably my least favorite of her books.  Not that it wasn’t good.  I don’t know if this woman could write a bad novel.  Only that it didn’t seem to twist and sneak up on you quite the same way the other two did.  But, it was chock full of creep factor and seriously demented and tortured souls. LIbby Day, whose family was murdered when she was seven, supposedly by her brother Ben, possibly while she watched.  Her brother, reputed to have been deeply immersed in a satanic cult with demons instructing him to do the killing.  Who has spent his life in prison for the “satanic ritualistic” murders, murders so violent, they have made the annals and history books of mass murders.  And Libby, who has spent her life living off the charity of donations of those who felt sorry for her after the tragedy, whose luck is running out and is no longer the sweetheart of the bleeding hearts club, now finds herself in the position that she will soon have to begin to fend for herself for the first time in her life.  This brings her into contact with “The Kill Club”. The Kill Club is a group that are fans of murder stories.  Sometimes of the condemned, often believing them innocent.  Some are amateur sleuths, trying to solve or re-solve what the police did not. Libby begins a journey initially to make a few extra buck to eventually try and learn the truth of what happened that night and whether her brother is really the monster that killed her family or was it someone else. It is an excellent book.  I guess I just liked the twists in the other two books a bit more than this one.  Not that this doesn’t have its share of surprises and scenes that make you gasp.  Her explorations into the psyche of her characters always sets her heads above most writers in her genre. SephiPiderWitch January 2015
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