Huh. Well that sure was something. I'm not sure what, precisely, but something for sure. This is really a short story packaged as a novella. There's not a lot of meat on these bones, but what is there is interesting. The voice is strong and the language evocative. This one is best experienced rather...
Very junior and bad concept. Bad story development. Substitutes supposedly "shocking" language about sex for actual interesting story. Seems this author doesn't know how to pull emotions from story, so relies on sexual imagery as a poor substitute. No twist that isn't a very standard, average "who c...
I didn't stop giving hand jobs because I wasn't good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I was the best at it. Skilled as a con artist from a young age, an unnamed woman has morphed her business of deception as a soft-core sex worker and then later, a psychological intuitive. When she meets Su...
Super short - read this in less than an hour. But yeah, typical Gillian. You know there's going to be a twist, so you keep waiting for it and trying to figure it out, and damn if she doesn't just surprise you anyways! And even when the twist is revealed...is it really what it seems? Okay, now we kno...
The unnamed narrator is leaving her old job of pro hand job giver and moving on to fortune teller. As a fortune teller she meets a mousy woman named Susan Burke. Susan hires the unnamed narrator to cleanse her old house of evil. But she may be in over her head. I liked the main character; actually...
I read it in Rogues, so maybe I enjoyed it more than everyone else because I had the short story context. That and I really enjoy the double-cross, the triple-cross, etc. ad infinitum. Library copy
Quick review for a quick read. Moral of this story: never take any of Gillian Flynn's characters at face value. They will screw you over every chance they get.I took this short story to be a good example of dark humor with multiple unreliable narrators. I found myself liking it while at the same tim...
When I read my first Gillian Flynn novel, I was confused, discombobulated, and frazzled when I finished it. I didn't know if it liked it or hated it. But now I'm 3 Flynn novels in and I love her, love her writing. I'm hooked. This novella is nothing different. It's Gillian all the way! No disappoin...
I didn't actually listen to the "audio CD," but the audiobook version I did listen to does not exist at Booklikes, and I am too tired to create a new edition. This is a shortie--the audio was only around 1:17 and change. The narrator was raised by a grifter and currently works as an aura-reading ...
This was a short read so that is the main reason why I would tell people to just go ahead and read it if you are a fan of Gillian Flynn. I thought that overall it was ok, not exceptional, though I do applaud Flynn for setting up a whole lady or the tiger scenario with the main character. I wish that...
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