Play Book Tag discussion

Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
Digital audiobook narrated by Rebecca Lowman, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins, and Robertson Dean.
4****

Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered. Libby fled their farmhouse – and testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Libby is basically broke, the trust fund set up by well-wishers long since depleted. When she’s approached by a secret society that wants to prove that Ben was wrongly convicted, Libby agrees, for a fee, to meet with her brother, estranged father and other people who knew the family then.

Libby is a somewhat unreliable narrator. Her memories are those of a child – confused, scared-out-of-her-wits, traumatized and impressionable. She clings to those memories because they are the only way she’s been able to make any sense of what happened to her. But as she meets with people from her past she uncovers more questions than answers and begins to doubt that her memories were accurate.

Flynn knows how to write a suspenseful psychological thriller. Here she explores memories and psychological trauma. As Libby begins to reconnect with various people, Flynn includes flashbacks to the January when her family was killed. This technique sometimes interrupts the story arc to the detriment of the novel, but in this case, Flynn managed to keep the reader in suspense and turning pages. I was caught up from the beginning and held on tight through all the twists and turns the story took.

The audiobook is narrated by a group of talented voice artists: Rebecca Lowman, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins and Robertson Dean. Unfortunately, I don’t know which character each of these voice artists was narrating, but I found the multiple narration effective.


LINK to my review