Recién salida de una breve estancia en un hospital psiquiátrico, Camille Preaker se dirige a su ciudad natal a cubrir una serie de asesinatos para el periódico en el que trabaja. Por primera vez en once años, la reportera de sucesos regresa a la inmensa mansión en la que creció, donde se tendrá que enfrentar a los recuerdos de su hermana, que murió en plena adolescencia; pero lo que más perturba a Camille es la presencia de su madre, una mujer fría y manipuladora que despierta la admiración de sus vecinos y que vive obsesionada con su salud y la de los suyos.Con la policía local abrumada por los hechos, Camille llevará a cabo su propia investigación, desafiando las rígidas normas sociales de un pequeño pueblo de la América profunda.

I always get really excited when I get down to the end of a mystery and I am still completely in the dark about who did it and why, this was one of those books. It had me enthralled from start to finish and kept me on the edge with each new revelation. Certain parts are honestly almost sickening, but it is done in a carefully orchestrated way that doesn't lose the message that Flynn is conveying through it.
As someone who has lived my whole life in a town of less then 2000 people it truly captures the dark side of such places, even if it does so in an almost theatric manner, especially amongst adolescence and how bizarre and wrong such things can seem to outsiders.
Another big appeal for me personally is I hate when the endings to books about murder, tragedy, etc have overly happy endings, just something that will completely turn me off a book where the ending of this was exactly what I thought it should have been not dismal but far from happy.
The only reason I haven't given five stars is Flynn built such fascinating and unique characters I really would have liked to have seen more of them and their development/ undoings ( )

Here is a cast list of utterly damaged characters, with the narrator, Camille Preaker, leading the cast. Fresh from psychiatric hospital, this Chicago-based reporter is sent to her long-left home town to comment on a couple of nasty and unsolved murders. We meet her damaged mother, her unreliable sister, and a host of others. This is an engrossing but troubling read, which in the end rather exhausted me and I was glad to turn the last page, feeling that both characters and the town in which the book is set are caricatures, rather than living breathing souls. ( )

Wow!!! is all I have to say about this book. I finished pretty quickly and I can't tell you how great this book really is. I am just now writing my review because my computer was down. I started reading this book after watching Gone Girl. Sharp objects was super riveting and kept me on my toes. I never wanted to book the book down. The twists and turns in this book will keep you wanted more. ***** stars for Gillian for this awesome read. ( )

Jesus Christ. It's fairly well-written, yeah, but reading it has been an emotionally blackening experience. I'd planned to read all 3 of Flynn's novels in a row starting with her debut here, but now I'm thinking I'll read something sunnier next to lift my mood. Crime and Punishment, Elie Wiesel's Night trilogy… something like that.

Maybe I just haven't had the misfortune, but it's hard to believe a town could be as horrible a place as Wind Gap, Missouri is. Down in the Missouri boot heel a massive pig factory farm operates just outside of town, cruelly treating the tortured pigs unfortunate enough to spend their lives there. Is that symbolism at work, you ask? Why yes, yes it is. While the humans down the road aren't locked in metal cages with bloody appendages poking out, they're nasty pieces of work in their own respects, and no one seems to get out.

Of course, one of them has. But not for long. Here, then, comes the survivor and escapee, Camille, back to town to write a story on the two young girls recently murdered and found with all their teeth removed. A cutter and an alcoholic, she gets sucked back in to the demented and twisted house of her psychopathic mother and other relatives, the legacy of a dead sister still in the air.

Laissez les bon temps rouler. Cripes. ( )