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Brilliant!

After reading Gone Girl, and Dark Places, this was actually the last of Gillian Flynn's books that I read; I am yet to buy The Grownup, but have read a large number of disappointing reviews so far. I loved Gone Girl: the quirky writing, the setting, the story, pretty much everything. Dark Places I hated. Maybe that's a little extreme. There were too many different POV and I found myself feeling dizzy and having to turn back to the beginning of chapters to remind myself who was narrating. It became a challenge to finish the book. I also felt deeply uneasy about Libby Day; she was not a character that I felt able to connect with on any level. However, Sharp Objects, really stayed with me. I loved the character of Camille: she felt fully fledged and very real. I found the story to be unsettling and unnerving and it stayed with me for weeks afterwards. I found a lot of the same quirky dialogue that I had originally loved in Gone Girl.
The story is quite simple: Camille returns to her hometown to report on the murders of two young girls. It's a typical whodunnit, and up until the end I had actually no idea who the killer was. The story seems to be a background for all the other sub-plots and issues in the book: self harm, alcoholism, abuse, and although it was extremely hard to read in places, I loved it. For those of you looking for a similar read, I recently came across two new books that I loved in a similar way, What Happened to Michael by N F Paupe, and The Dry by Jane Harper, set in different countries, but with similar themes, both of which left me feeling a similar way to Sharp Objects.