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So, it's taken me a while to get to writing a review about this one for good reason. Sharp Objects was a wonderful book. It was quite well written, an exciting story, engaging mystery - it had very memorable characters, and a great deal of the imagery within it will stick with me for a long time. While the very premise of the book sounds like it's just trying to be edgy for the sake of being edgy Gillian Flynn avoided that trope very well, instead creating a harrowing protagonist and a town just bristling with hypocrisy that's far too easy to envision.

All of that being said, I'd feel deeply uncomfortable recommending this book to anyone. The book is dark, it's gritty, it's replete with a hateful stickiness that's difficult to get out from under your skin. While it was easy to put down Gone Girl once I finished it and shrug the protagonists off, Sharp Objects is nearly impossible to let go of. It stays, and it settles with an uncomfortable nauseating weight low in your stomach.

Gillian Flynn has a gift for writing about terrible people doing awful things, and I believe that Sharp Objects is the best example of that talent so far. I'll happily read just about anything she releases, but I'll do so with the greatest of caution.