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I kept wanting this book to be rooted in reality and it’s just not.  That made me angry.  If you want to enjoy this book, you have to be able to accept that the ending could never have happened and then just appreciate it for its dreamlike quality. Basically Amber is stuck in juvie…maybe guilty…

Most people say “Sharp Objects” is their least favorite out Gillian Flynn’s novels.  I disagree.  This twisted book could be Gillian Flynn’s best work.  Sure there’s a surprise, but not the numerous twists and turns of “Gone Girl” or even “Dark Places.”  It doesn’t need them.  It will hook you with it’s eeriness and may…

I’m sure you’ve heard it: “fans of Gone Girl will love The Girl on the Train.”  Well, it’s true.  You’ll tear through it.  You, just like the narrator Rachel, will want to know what happened to the loving couple she watches every morning from her seat on the train.  She imagines what their lives must be like…

The only thing perfect about the Post family vacation is the location.  They are all set to spend two weeks is picturesque Mallorca.  They have a mansion to themselves in the countryside and not a care in the world since husband Jim is embarking on early retirement and daughter Sylvia is heading off to college.…

By the sheer luck of being Ev’s college roommate, Mabel gains entree into the Wislow’s blue-blooded world.  The Winslows are society folk of Kennedy – nay, Vanderbilt – proportions.  Mabel does not just want to spend time with them, she wants to be one of them.  When Ev invites her to Winloch, the Vermont camp/estate where…

Ani has carefully curated a perfect life for herself.  She’s an editor at a top magazine where her bosses adore her, she has a closet filled with all the top labels, and she has snagged herself a Kennedy-esque fiancé.  She worked hard studying the lives she wanted to emulate and made it happen for herself,…

On the small island of Alice, off the coast of Massachusetts, everyone sees bookshop owner A.J. Fikry as a loner and a bit rude.  He doesn’t engage with the townspeople and is very much set in his ways.  As a widow who lives off frozen meals and wine, Fikry knows he lives an unhappy life…

I came of age in France so I am drawn to a coming of age novel set in the country.  Isabel is an American from California that I would categorize as flighty.  She has dropped out of film school and has moved to France to help her pregnant sister, Roxy, prepare for the arrival of her…

Like pretty much everyone else, I was obsessed with “Gone Girl” so I made sure to read Gillian Flynn’s next novel, “Dark Places” and it did not disappoint.  Libby Day is the victim of a gruesome crime.  When she was just seven, her mother and two sisters were brutally murdered – we’re talking strangled, chopped with an…