I could not put this book down! This is another thriller from Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, and it does not disappoint. It's the story of Libby Day, who survived the massacre of her mother and two older sisters in 1985 in Kinnakee, Kansas, and whose testimony sent her older brother Ben to prison for life as the sole murderer.
It's now 2009 and Libby has lived her life avoiding the "dark places" of that horrible night, existing on charity and the meager revenue of a poorly-received book. But now Libby needs money, so she reluctantly accepts an appearance request from a local "Kill Club," a group that investigates old murders, and who thinks Ben is innocent. Pretty soon Libby is doubting everything she has grown up believing.
Told in turns from present-day Libby's perspective, and from the perspective of Ben and their mother, Patty, on that horrible day in January 1985, we see that not all truths are totally true, and that we believe things are a certain way because we want to believe they're that way. Like in Gone Girl, Flynn plays with our notions of reliable characters and who the reader is supposed to believe, and also with how things look isn't how things actually are.
The movie comes out in August.... with Charlize Theron as grown-up Libby. I'm looking forward to it.
Dark Places
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