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 | : | Anniversary 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.
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| Original Title: | Dark Rooms |
| ISBN: | 0062345869 (ISBN13: 9780062345868) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.1 From 4111 Users | 330 ReviewsCritique Out Of Books Dark Rooms
Don't make my mistake and be seduced by the well-written synopsis. It's about the only thing that's well-written about this book. DR is poorly written. Not only does it use up every gender/socioeconomic status/sexual orientation/addiction/grief coping mechanism trope that's out there, the author has no sense of voice. Her characters are supposed to be either high school juniors and seniors or college freshmen. They all sound like they are in their mid-twenties. It's not so much their actionsunlike 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,
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
Did you hate how clever and charming and well written Veronica Mars was?Did you find Bella Swan to be too nuanced and well-written a first person narrator?Is your favorite episode of Law and Order: SVU the Season 5, episode 15 "Families"? (this would be a spoiler)Do you love Mary Sue narrators?Then you will love this pop culture pastiche masquerading as a noir with no stakes and the weakest rape apology I've ever read in my life.
I picked this book up because Flavorwire highlighted it for fans of Veronica Mars. It's certainly true that the plot is almost exactly same as the first season of the show (murdered sister instead of best friend), but Dark Rooms lacks the wit, character development, and nuance that made Veronica Mars so compelling.All the characters feel sketched out and underwritten. Most frustratingly, I never felt like I knew Grace, or understood her choices. Moments that should have made me feel like new
Thank you to William Morrow for my advance readers edition of Dark Rooms, by Lili Anolik.Dark Rooms has been variously promoted as a combination of Twin Peaks, Megan Abbott, and The Secret History. To me, these descriptions didnt fit the book, and so, I felt disappointed.There is a little of the wonderful creepy, quirky, hallucinatory quality of Twin Peaks, especially in one scene at the end of the novel, but the strangeness that made Twin Peaks so unique is lacking in Dark Rooms.In the same
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