Now she’s being told she was wrong, that she wrongfully put her brother in prison for a crime he did not commit. She pushed away anyone who tried to care for her, becoming volatile, destructive and hateful. She went through a horrible tragedy and was then exploited for it her whole life. Libby isn’t a lovable woman – she has no reason to be. Now she needs to take it out, dust it off and face the event that destroyed her all over again. She never revisits that night – it’s a dark place. But this time, it isn’t a book or a newspaper article, it’s a group of people who want to dig into the crime, and want her to help. Knowing nothing else, she falls into selling the story of her family. At the ripe old age of 30, she needs to find some way to support herself.

In the many years since that horrible night, she has been living off of donations from well-wishers but she’s old news now.

Libby Day is the lone survivor of a massacre that killed her sisters and mother and put her brother behind bars for committing the crime. Libby is sheltered and mean, defensive and entitled, damaged and ruined before she even had a chance to begin her life. It isn’t a good life it isn’t even a passable life. Call it a sophomore slump, but while it’s still better than most of the crap posing as thrillers these days, this one just missed the mark.ĭark Places takes us into the life of Libby Day. Her second novel, Dark Places, proves that she is fallible. In her third, the bestselling Gone Girl, her characters were less likable but her plotting was absolutely brilliant. In her first book, Sharp Objects, author Gillian Flynn brought us a deeply flawed and fragile heroine in a perilous and sadly familiar situation.

Dark places by gillian flynn