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I mean, I did finish it. Yet, the whole of the book was not greater than the sum of its parts. While it had some truly eerie scenes, I had the mystery solved very, very early on.
I won't sugar coat it. I grew up with a mother who had Munchausen, bothI mean, I did finish it. Yet, the whole of the book was not greater than the sum of its parts. While it had some truly eerie scenes, I had the mystery solved very, very early on.
I won't sugar coat it. I grew up with a mother who had Munchausen, both by-proxy and straight up. I saw some of myself in Camille, but there is something about the whole situation that reeks of writing as an outsider and not having experienced it first hand. I actually left the small place I was from to move to Chicago, and I can tell you, it was a huge relief to finally be away from my Mother, to be fully out of contact. I'm free from her web, and it is GREAT. I would never go back, and I can tell you that I have a hard time believing Camille would, too. Perhaps I am horribly myopic and should not believe that other victims would be just like me, so let's move onto other issues.
I knew it was Amma from the moment they mentioned her laughing as people left Natalie's funeral. The crueler the things she did in the story, the more painfully obvious her guilt became. She was without any form of empathy. She was cruel. She did sick things. She had an ability to shift personalities to suit her circumstance.
The end of the book was not a surprise, and like Gone Girl, where other folks said it was a shocking twist, I could see it from so, so early on. Why did I continue to read, then? It was OK, it wasn't challenging, and I really wanted to see how Adora would continue to be her sick self. I do love Adora's creepy bows, nice touch.
Maybe I have read too many hardboiled mysteries. Maybe I have seen too much. Whatever it was, I have been able to figure out Flynn's plots early on every time. Her neurotic characters do have decent depth, but the plot- all you have to do is ask yourself what would be shocking. Look past the red herring and you can easily find the darkest folks in each of her books....more
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