Review: The Grownup

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

2.5 Stars Review. I really enjoyed reading Gillian Flynn's book, I loved Gone Girl and recommended that one to others, but I was somewhat disappointed in this one. It lacked that peak interest that the author usually has in her books that keep you intrigued. To me this was almost like a rough draft that needed to edited, rewrote, and explored more.

The character's seemed under developed and at times they didn't seem to have a personality. The main character works as a fortune-teller, psychic, who preys one gullible rich people, mainly women. But she's actually a con-artist. When one walks in the narrator who is nameless, see's big dollar signs, Susan walks in and claims her house is haunted and she fears for her and her child's life. The narrator jumps at the chance to cash in on a big payday and does a house cleansing, for a price of course. When the narrator gets to the house she also meets Susan's step-son, who happens to be a typical teenager that is finding himself, in other words he just down right creepy. This is where the story goes off track and things actually become weird as through the author didn't know where to go from here and put in whatever she thought she could to wrap the story up.

This is a very short book with only about 65 pages.

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