Sharp Objects

I struggled trying to rate this. It was hard to get into at first, but it was a quick read. I figured out the ending on page 67 and felt like I was trudging through a lot of unnecessary and repetitive descriptions of the people and history of Wind Gap just to get to the end. The main character is incredibly flawed, understandably so, and - though I love a flawed character - I'm so bored with the “unreliable alcoholic” trope. The sexualizing of 13-year-old girls was just uncomfortable too. The pacing at the very end was rushed, and it seemed like Flynn didn't know how to put the ending she wanted on the page. The reveal of the twist was a textbook example of telling instead of showing. I can still enjoy a book if I figure out the end as long as it is done well, but the emotionless telling led to a very anticlimactic reveal that didn't pack the punch the author was aiming for.