Grownup By Gillian Flynn

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The first thing you should know is that this book is not your average length. The book is quite short and I would definitely say more of a short story or novella. I am not a particularly fast reader but this book did not even take me half a day to read.Regardless of this, I love Gillian Flynn as an author and have read her previous books, including Gone Girl.She still achieves the suspense and mystery/thriller that she portrays in all of her other books that I have read. She did not disappoint as there were still plot twists and the psychological thriller element that I expected.This book does really well to tell a full story in a limited amount of pages and could have definitely been a full novel if given the time.Ends on a cliffhanger but does leave you wanting more and I was not disappointed.

Super kurz-Krimi! Sehr spannend und einfach zu lessen. Hätte natürlich noch weiter lessen können :) Aber wie immer super geschrieben von Flynn!

Having read all of Gillian Flynn's novels, I was not disappointed with this short story. Creepy doesn't begin to describe the teenager who lives with his parents in the old Victorian house that may or may not be haunted, but the kid is for sure. The book is written in first person, by a woman who's retiring from giving 'hand-jobs' because of carpal tunnel syndrome. "I quit because when you give 23,546 hands jobs over a three-year period, carpal tunnel syndrome is a very real thing." page 7I love how the heroine describes her customers. "They tend to be tense, nervous married men, men with midlevel, mostly powerless jobs. I'm just giving my assessment. They want you attractive but not slutty. For instance, in my real life, I wear glasses, but I don't when I'm in back because it's distracting--they think you're going to pull a Sexy Librarian act on them, and it makes them tense while they wait for the first chords of a ZZ Top song and then they don't hear stand they get embarrassed for thinking that you were going to do the Sexy Librarian and the whole thing takes longer than anyone wants." page 12-13 How can you not love that line?For such a short book, I swear that 5% of Flynn's wonderful-witty prose is highlighted. I'm not sure I ever learned what the main character's name was and she was such a strong, well-drawn character that I didn't even notice until I started writing this review. Born to a mother who was so lazy she couldn't even be bothered to get a job, but she did teach her daughter to beg. Here's a great line about how the heroine got into the job giving hand-jobs. "What I did was purely transactional: You made someone feel good and they gave you money. So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression." page 11With the whole carpal tunnel syndrome going on, our heroine had to find something new to do in order to support herself. Luckily the building she worked in had two career paths; hand jobs and fortune telling. Both meant to make the person feel like there was hope in the world. Our heroine becomes a psychic and that's when she meets Susan Burke and her creepy house, and creepier stepson.With all of her street sense, our heroine set to work clearing the energy of the house, and it's there when things start to go really wrong, or really right, depending on your point of view. The plot goes on from there, surprising and amusing in a sick way, until the end, which is really a great beginning which I hope Flynn continues with in a full length novel. I really loved the characters. No one does sociopath like Flynn. A fun hour of ready by an excellent author. Worth the money because you'll probably read it twice.

Having read Dark Places, Gone Girl, and Sharp Objects, which I enjoyed, I was looking forward to another creepy story with, possibly, a nice twist. The writing was enjoyable but the 2nd half of the book was disappointing, in my opinion.