Thursday, April 9, 2020

Book Review on The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn


Blurb:

A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke.

Susan moved to the city one year ago with her husband and 15-year-old stepson Miles. They live in a Victorian house called Carterhook Manor. Susan has become convinced that some malevolent spirit is inhabiting their home. The young woman doesn't believe in exorcism or the supernatural. However when she enters the house for the first time, she begins to feel it too, as if the very house is watching her, waiting, biding its time . . .

The Grownup, which originally appeared as 'What Do You Do?' in George R. R. Martin's Rogues short story anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world's most original and skilled voices in fiction.


My Review:

The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn is a different story line with unpredictability. The beginning is bit slow and the story becomes fast paced when the protangonist meets her client Susan. The book is a short read in which one can experience the chill run through their spine. The book engages the reader throughout the story yet the end is hypothetical where one needs to arrive their own conclusion which leaves the reader under exasperation.


My rating is 3 stars for this minuscule read.

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