Details Regarding Books Dark Rooms

Title	:	Dark Rooms
Author	:	Lili Anolik
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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

Dark Rooms Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

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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

Rating Regarding Books Dark Rooms

Ratings: 3.1 From 4111 Users | 330 Reviews

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unlike 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,

I feel like this book should not have been published. This was at best a first draft, I don't know how all of these fragments and typos escaped the editor. The toed the line between fantasy land and reality the entire book. Not to mention this whole book made me sort of uncomfortable. Grace had an unhealthy obsession with her sister to the point of Bates Motel incest. The only reason I completed this book was because I wanted to see how the author tied up loose ends. So the entire time the

The jacket description makes this book sound like a home run: sixteen-year-old prep school student Nica has been murdered. The case is closed, solved tidily without much fanfare, but Nica's sister Grace thinks the real killer is still out there. She sets out to uncover the truth about her sister's death, but she's going to have to dig through a whole lot of dirt before she reaches it. Let me stress thata LOT of dirt.It's that sordid, seamy quality that kept me engaged in Dark Rooms despite some

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

This novel was marketed as "Megan Abbott meets Twin Peaks." The Megan Abbott part has to do with the troubled teen girls at the center of the book, Grace, and her murdered sister. The Twin Peaks part has to do with Grace having full blown conversations with her dead sister, and showing up to a party dressed like her. I guess it's not VERY Twin Peaks, just trippy and disturbing, but that's where I think the blurb comes from. ANYWAYS.I liked this book a lot. It fits into two of my favorite genres,

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

Dnf at 25%. I have no desire to continue reading this, maybe I'll come back to it another time.....maybe not.