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 | : | Deluxe 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 Supposing Dark Rooms
| Original Title: | Dark Rooms |
| ISBN: | 0062345869 (ISBN13: 9780062345868) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating About Books Dark Rooms
Ratings: 3.1 From 4111 Users | 330 ReviewsEvaluation About Books Dark Rooms
Kirkus Reviews glowed about this book and I know they're really tough and quality critics. When it specifically said "In the process, she begins to find her own identity, an identity that isfor the first timeseparate from her sisters. As much as this is a crime drama, it's also a coming-of-age novel" I became very interested. I gave it a try and was hooked from minute one. Total surprises and quality writing. The author brings a consistent suspense throughout AND the writing is so good. SinceAmazing! Couldn't put it down. (Got my hands on an ARC and flipped.) I want a movie.
Damn, you guys - that one was rough. Two wretched "suspense" novels in a row are making me wonder if I've lost the ability to enjoy books, or at least choose them.First, this book has *nothing* in common with either *Sharp Objects* or *The Secret History,* nor does it have any of the atmosphere you would expect from a novel set in "the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school." That's my fault for being sucked in by a publisher's blurb, and I will confess I was
unlike The Secret History, this book has some problems. i was prepared for it, since so many of the reviews on here have been thumbs-down; people expecting a donna tartt or a gillian flynn and getting something altogether different. and i can't say i hated it - it's a very fast read, and it was a fine summer diversion, but it takes some frustrating shortcuts down build-the-suspense road.nica baker is sixteen when she is murdered on the grounds of chandler academy, a prep school in hartford,
My immediate thoughts after reading Lili Anolik's Dark Rooms:1. Wait, that's it?2. Seriously, that's freaking IT?!!3. That's bullshit.4. Well, I guess that's one weekend I can never get back.I should have known. I was on a roll; I was reading some good, some not so good but entertaining books and then I read Dark Rooms and my streak came to a screeching halt. I knew within reading the first paragraph I wasn't going to like it but I kept trudging away. My instincts were right.Dark Rooms is a
"The Secret History" meets "Sharp Objects"? Not so much. The premise of this book was great. But the writing was awkward, the flow of the story jumpy. The people were bizarrely one dimensional, even the motivations of the main character felt wooden. The descriptions were off, too. For example, there were constantly descriptions of photographs taken from behind one of the characters - photos of her back - but then it would go on to describe her facial expression in detail. Small thing but it
Well, this was awful. Normally I feel guilty for giving a book such a low rating, but this book was not just bad, it was offensive. I had the same problems as everyone else. First of all, Dark Rooms is nothing like The Secret History, Dark Places, Sharp Objects, Twin Peaks, or any of the other "edgy" mysteries out there. But hey, at least it wasn't hailed as the next Gone Girl like every other book!But a misleading blurb is not the offensive part. The offensive part is that (view spoiler)
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