Book Review: Sharp Objects

I have been reading this book for A.P. Lit at school and I have to admit that it really made me want to wash my hands after putting it down multiple times. The story unfolds with a 31-year-old woman, journalist for a lower budget newspaper, whose boss tells her to go back to her little hometown, Wind Gap. There have been two girls gone missing, one a year ago and found dead, and a recent girl who has just gone missing. Her hopeful boss is immensely unaware of the demons that haunt her back in her old hometown.
Camille, our journalist, travels back home and with little money from the newspaper is expected to stay with her mother. Adora, Camille's mother, is a very fickle woman who seems to have once wanted to be a mother, but failed when the action actually was required. Camille always wanted her affections, but the death of her sickly sister, Marion, when Camille was only young had died of constant illness. Adora had loved her immensely, but neglected Camille drastically affecting the way Camille led her life. Promiscuity and cutting became Camille's best hobby as a child, beautiful and smart as she was. The final and probably most frustrating character would be Camille's little sister Amma, the one who always had mother's affections and is babied, but when mommy isn't looking, watch out for the cruel little bitch she becomes.
Cutting was her release. She had a different case which you must read to understand. The mystery of the missing girls goes on for week after week as more than just the killings haunt Camille. Her need to leave heightens and there is no going back after this trip back home to mommy-dearest.