In a complete departure from Austenland, I next picked up this book and promptly tore through it in less than 24 hours. A considerably dark tale about a journalist from Chicago who is sent back to her small Missouri hometown to cover the serial murders of little girls. As the book unfolds, it becomes both very disturbed and bizarre, delving into the relationships of the women in the town, and within the protagonist's own family. The mother, Adora, is a repressed sociopathic WASPy type, and the youngest daughter, Amma is a bipolar bully who takes great joy in witnessing pain and violence. These two alone would make for a great story, but when told through the eyes of a very disturbed reporter who, as a cutter, has carved words all over her skin, made it so I couldn't go anywhere or do anything until i finished the book.
Interestingly, when I finished the book I read the author bio, and it turns out Gillian Flynn is the television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Weird - you would think she would write something more along the lines of "The Hills", but I guess people do surprise you for the better occasionally.
Anyway, it was a gripping and very interesting read, and I give it 4 Kansas City cops out of 5, and I look forward to reading Gillian Flynn's recently released new novel, as soon as the library gets it to me.
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