![]() ![]() ![]() I was disappointed when the truth is revealed. You find out what really happened the day Libby’s family was slaughtered near the end of the novel. She spends a lot of time wondering what family memories she can flog. She doesn’t seem to have any motivation to get a job and earn her own money. She’s lived off money donated by people who feel sorry for her and well-wisher’s. She comes across as a lazy, self-indulgent person. I didn’t really find Libby a sympathetic character despite what she’d gone through. ![]() I just don’t think the novel is as good as the author’s other novels, Sharp Objects and Gone Girl. There is plenty of intrigue, tension and suspense as Libby tries to find out what really happened the day her family was slaughtered with a little help from the Kill Club. The characters are complex and messed up. I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.ĭark Places is a really good thriller. Now, twenty-four years later, the truth is going to be even harder to find. She begins to realise that everyone in her family had something to hide that day… especially Ben. Was the voice she heard her brother’s? Ben was a misfit in their small town, but was he capable of murder? Are there secrets to uncover at the family farm or is Libby deluding herself because she wants her brother back? But when she is contacted by a group who are convinced of Ben’s innocence, Libby starts to ask questions she never dared to before. Libby Day was just seven years old when her evidence put her fifteen-year-old brother behind bars. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |