On the edge, heart racing, I ask you...what will happen next? Each crisp turn of the page is another motive, question, and cliff-dive of #omg what just happened! With a book like that, I figure it's the perfect excuse to be a tad anti-social for a little bit. Confession, I've dove into books so much that not even my mom screaming Tiramisu could make me escape the book world. *And I know from experience..*
If you think it might give you nightmares, it doesn't matter because author Gillian Flynn entices you to the dark and twisted world of her characters. And once you meet one character, you're hooked and before long, you'll know them all. Against other authors, Flynn's writing style, plots, and overall disturbed tone, sets her on a different path. A path you'll follow her on.
Perspective. The make it or break it part. Books read through the same one perspective can get boring, leaving behind the #OhNoSheDidnt moments. Or worse, reading a book where you don't like a character's perspective and realize you're stuck with him for all 400 pages..[cue the eye roll] #TheStruggle #AmIRight. BUT, then there is Flynn that makes you go from eye roll to:
[sidenote: Carlton's awesome]
When you find out that Gillian Flynn's novel "Dark Places" has more than one perspective, how can you not bust a move? In this novel, Flynn bares the perspectives of the murderer and the innocent, the victims and the survivor, and the guilty love. It's a writing style that makes you participate. Flynn throws you into being an investigator and a witness of the murder.
Flynn creates disturbed realities. And even the most innocent conversations put you on the look out. Because, BOOM, something crazy is about to happen and you're not sure how many pages away it is, but you know it'll be a mixture of creepy, scary, and shocking.
The characters. The more you understand and know the characters in Flynn's novels, the more surreal Ice Cube's face becomes. They're troubled and tormented, trapped in a darkness that you realize they may never escape. And even the seemingly innocent victims become guilty. The scariest part... how realistic it all appears. Especially the darkness that haunts them.
If you need an addicting thriller to read, chose Gillian Flynn. Her novels are great, especially "Dark Places." Pinky promise.
