Lili Anolik
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.1 | 4111 Users | 330 Reviews
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| Title | : | Dark Rooms |
| Author | : | Lili Anolik |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | March 3rd 2015 by William Morrow (first published March 1st 2015) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Suspense. Mystery Thriller. Drama. Adult |
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The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school. Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly—a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession—but memory and instinct won’t allow Nica’s older sister, Grace, to accept the case as closed. Dropping out of college and living at home, working at the moneyed and progressive private high school in Hartford, Connecticut, from which she recently graduated, Grace becomes increasingly obsessed with identifying and punishing the real killer. Compulsively readable, Lili Anolik’s debut novel combines the verbal dexterity of Marisha Pessl’s Special Topic in Calamity Physics and the haunting atmospherics and hairpin plot twists of Megan Abbott’s Dare Me.Particularize Books Conducive To Dark Rooms
| Original Title: | Dark Rooms |
| ISBN: | 0062345869 (ISBN13: 9780062345868) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Containing Books Dark Rooms
Ratings: 3.1 From 4111 Users | 330 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books Dark Rooms
Don't make my mistake and be seduced by the well-written synopsis. It's about the only thing that's well-written about this book. DR is poorly written. Not only does it use up every gender/socioeconomic status/sexual orientation/addiction/grief coping mechanism trope that's out there, the author has no sense of voice. Her characters are supposed to be either high school juniors and seniors or college freshmen. They all sound like they are in their mid-twenties. It's not so much their actions5 "snarky, jagged and twisted psychosexual" stars !!! 2016 Honorable Mention Read with High Distinction This is an ancient Greek tragedy in a contemporary private school New England setting.This book absolutely blew me away. It is sooo raw, soooo sordid and yet so poignant.A 17 year old girl is murdered and her older sister seeks out her killer.Do not let the casual contemporary tone fool you. This book is full of primordial emotion. primitive lusts and humans acting out their id impulses in a
I feel like this book should not have been published. This was at best a first draft, I don't know how all of these fragments and typos escaped the editor. The toed the line between fantasy land and reality the entire book. Not to mention this whole book made me sort of uncomfortable. Grace had an unhealthy obsession with her sister to the point of Bates Motel incest. The only reason I completed this book was because I wanted to see how the author tied up loose ends. So the entire time the
I picked this book up because Flavorwire highlighted it for fans of Veronica Mars. It's certainly true that the plot is almost exactly same as the first season of the show (murdered sister instead of best friend), but Dark Rooms lacks the wit, character development, and nuance that made Veronica Mars so compelling.All the characters feel sketched out and underwritten. Most frustratingly, I never felt like I knew Grace, or understood her choices. Moments that should have made me feel like new
Amazing! Couldn't put it down. (Got my hands on an ARC and flipped.) I want a movie.
Murder, drug addiction, rape, sex, illicit affairs, secrets and lies, messed up family dynamics. Really too much going on here for my taste. Too many twists, turns, and red herrings made this into a story that was so busy that it detracted from the overall effect. I would have given only two stars but there was something really original in here that deserves the extra star. (view spoiler)[The mother and her own especial artwork, endlessly photographing her daughter, Nica. The background story of
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