The Grownup by Gillian FlynnPublisher: Crown/Archetype, November 2015
Genre: Fiction, Short Story/Novella
Pages: eBook, 64 pages
Rating: 3/5 stars
Summary (from chapters.indigo.ca):
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan’s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan’s teenage stepson, doesn’t help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.
Review:
I really enjoy Gillian Flynn's book and have read all of them so when I saw that she had a short story out, I picked it up from the local library but I feel very conflicted.
While the middle section of the story was amazing, a page-turner that I couldn't stop reading, both the beginning and end were boring. In fact, I almost stopped reading about 3-4 pages before it got interesting and then when it ended, I felt a little like "what the heck just happened... did it actually end that way?". I was left feeling disappointed and unfulfilled... is that possible when you are reading a 'book' that has less than 100 pages? I don't know but if you end a story with a sour taste, it really doesn't make you want to recommend it to others and this is a really cool 'supernatural' story that I think had the bones to be an awesome full-length book.
So, taking all that in, I would say it IS worth the read because of how quick you will get through it but will warn you to be prepared for an ending that may leave you wanting something more.
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