Sharp Objects follows the story of Camille Preaker, journalist for a small paper in Chicago that isn't all that popular. She is called back to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri to cover two recent child murders and get the case some more attention. The murders had the entire town stumped, as there were two dead girls and both of them had had their teeth removed. Why is the book called Sharp Objects, you might ask? Camille confesses to being a cutter in the early chapters, and spent many years of her teenage and young adult lives covering most of the skin of her body with words, cut into her flesh.
As with her other novels, Sharp Objects is one of those cerebral, can't-put-it-down novels that is so rare to find. With it being Gillian Flynn's first, I can definitely understand how it gained so much attention so fast - it is really a wonderful book, and a great way to begin the successful career she has now. She has a hell of a way with words - leaving the reader unable to get enough of her, and not quite able to figure out what is going to happen before the very end. I will say that once a resolution was reached, Sharp Objects ended pretty quickly, but at the same time, ending too quickly is not representative of how well the story is built throughout the course of the entire novel.
To make a long story short, Sharp Objects was a great first novel for Gillian Flynn, and she has done nothing but grow with her other works. I am personally excited to see what else she could have up her sleeve!
