Dark Rooms on March 3rd 2015 Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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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.
About Lili Anolik
Lili Anolik's work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Harper's, and The Believer, among other publications. Her first novel, Dark Rooms, will be published by William Morrow-HarperCollins in March 2015.
Anything with comparisons to Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott is an ‘abso-freaking-lutely’ in my book.
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Oooh, good one! I’ve never heard of this, but any blurb that mentions The Secret History is one I’m going to read. Thanks for the heads up!
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I love good thriller, and I havent’ read a good one in awhile. Hopefully this one pans out.
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Huh, that sounds interesting! I think these kinds of books tend to appeal to me more as adult than YA, because they’re darker and more interesting. 🙂
I very much agree. There are very few mystery/thriller YA books I’ve found I enjoyed (Dangerous Girls and Dangerous Boys are two at the very top of that list) but I just prefer the majority of my mysteries to be written geared towards adults since I do prefer them dark and YA tends to lay it on thin.
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