Books like dark places by gillian flynn

In dark places, her equally sensuous and chilling followup, flynn. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read dark places. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out on the big screen. Although the two books are different, dark places is every bit as good as gone girl, and i encourage you to read it. Here are 12 books youll love if you enjoy fastpaced, page turner thrillers like dark places. Dec 06, 2017 ive been planning to read more of gillian flynns books, as i absolutely loved gone girl. Now your sleepless nights are spent yearning for another gillian flynn book and could the days until the gone girl movie comes out be going by any slower never fear.

Dark places is a mystery novel by gillian flynn published in 2009. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading dark places. In dark places, her equally sensuous and chilling followup, flynn has conjured up a whole new crew of feral and troubled young females. Its always hard to say why a particular book explodes at a particular time and why others by the same writer simmer away less noticed. Goodreads members who liked dark places also liked. Below youll find a list of 11 books like gone girl by gillian flynn, most of which share flynn s dark writing style or her ability to craft surprising twists. A readers guide for dark places by gillian flynn for additional features, visit in order to provide reading groups with the most informed and thoughtprovoking questions possible, it is necessary to reveal important aspects of the plot of this novel. Ask the author gillian flynndark placessimilar books. Gillian flynn fans will love these books like dark places.

Libby day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in the satan sacrifice of kinnakee, kansas. Gone girl author gillian flynn is writing a new book. These thrillers will have gillian flynn fans on the edge of their seats. The complete gillian flynn gone girl, dark places, sharp objects gillian flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre. Dark places by gillian flynn if youre a fan of gillian flynn, chances are youve already read gone girl, but the bestselling author has another twisty title waiting for you on the shelf. But whats a murky mysteryloving girl to do when shes already powered through all three of flynns novelsgone girl, dark. It doesnt really pick up until about halfway through, but ive found that problem in a lot of books so i wasnt too surprised. The novel deals with class issues in rural america, intense poverty and the satanic cult hysteria that swept the united states in the 1980s.

Dark places by gillian flynn libby was seven years old when her mother and sisters were massacred, one freezing winters night, leaving her traumatised, suffering from frost bite and believing that her brother was the murderer. I thought dark places was a great read but like its title very dark and full of those scarier aspects of human emotion. Apr 22, 2018 i dont know about you but i love gillian flynn. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. As her family lay dying, little libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing january snow. If youre a fan of gillian flynn, chances are youve already read gone girl, but the bestselling author has another. It centers on two imperfect teenage girls who get wrapped up in dark obsessions that ultimately lead toward murder.

This book begins with a declaration by one main character that will interest you right away. Gillian flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre. Gillian flynn on 6 dark books that actually scare her glamour. I cant wait to see the dark places movie this august. In dark places, her equally sensuous and chilling followup, flynnhas conjured up a whole new crew of feral and troubled young females. Dark places by gillian flynnflynns second novel is a wonderful evocation of drab smalltown life, writes laura wilson. A former writer and critic for entertainment weekly, she lives in chicago with her husband and son. As all fans know, flynn s combination of talent and surprise leaves the reader always wanting more.

Flynn wrote the adaptations for the 2014 gone girl film and the hbo limited series sharp objects. You ran out and bought sharp objects and dark places and read them in two sleepless nights. Mar 12, 2020 dark places was written by gillian flynn before she wrote her 2012 smash success gone girl. Flynn has published three novels, sharp objects, dark places, and gone girl, all three of which have been adapted for film or television. Now your sleepless nights are spent yearning for another gillian flynn bookand could. Sharp objects, dark places from the worlds largest community of readers. Her novel girls on fire is an intense psychological thriller that mimics the gutwrenching conclusion of gillian flynn s dark places. The other two, gone girl and dark places, were made into films in 2014 and 2015, respectively. The tendency to write about unpleasant characters and go to their dark places worked much better for me in dark places than the aforementioned novel.

Next she constructed two compelling timelines in dark places that. Aug 01, 2010 before gone girl burst onto the scene with enormous billboards and a twitter hashtag, gillian flynn had already published two novels, the second of them this dark places. Buy a cheap copy of dark places book by gillian flynn. This dark, gritty thriller writer is the brains behind gone girl, sharp objects and dark places. Buy dark places book online at low prices in india dark. Now your sleepless nights are spent yearning for another gillian flynn bookand could the days until the gone girl movie comes out be going by any slower never fear. Here are 11 mystery and suspense authors like gillian flynn.

Flynn has published three novels, sharp objects, dark places, and gone girl, all three of. Gillian flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre gillian flynn s writing is compulsively good. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer with her blistering debut sharp objects, gillian flynn hit the ground running. Gillian flynn on 6 dark books that actually scare her.

Spoilers i just finished reading dark places by gillian. She survivedand famously testified that her fifteenyearold brother, ben, was the killer. Jun 10, 2010 i have no doubt that gillian flynn is a very good writer and that she has a special niche as far as her mystery stories go. If youve already read all the books by gillian flynn dark places, sharp objects, and of course gone girl there are a number of new positively thrilling books to read that will satisfy your craving for the psychologically suspenseful.

Literarily speaking, we worship at the dark altar of gillian flynn. May 04, 2010 gillian flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in sharp objects, her sensuous and chilling first thriller. I did enjoy dark places, but it doesnt quite match up to flynns bestknown book. Find books like dark places from the worlds largest community of readers. Im kind of annoyed with libby too, she spent like 25 years believing her brother killed their whole family and maybe his role in it wasnt as bad but still, his baby momma and baby tried to kill her.