Sharp Objects

Ugh..and then bleh.

Summary: A reporter returns to her small home town in Missouri, to investigate the murder of 2 young girls. She realizes her family and old friends were not who she thought they were.

It's ugly. Uncomfortable. Often unnecessarily so. Just for the sake of it.

There is barely a plot. All you need for a story is in the first 2 and last 2 chapters. Everything in the middle is just filler. Dark filler. Everything is wrong. Everybody is awful. It's like something out of X files. Some radiation or something, made a whole town develop a mean streak. A town high on violence.

I don't think it's a badly written book (although there wasn't anything spectacular about the writing). It just wasn't for me. There is not much of a mystery to it, like in Gone Girl. Either you forsee the ending, or even if you don't, you can't really care when you do.

The book is about the people in it. The plot, probably was just a side-effect. And that's absolutely well done. If you like to read about evil deeds and evil people and why they do them, you might enjoy this.

Not feel good. Not one bit. Opposite opposite.