The Grownup - A Story by the Author of Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

Crown

2015

64 páginas

2h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780804188975

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.

“The Grownup,” which originally appeared as “What Do You Do?” in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world’s most original and skilled voices in fiction.

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3.5 (Bom)

Exatamente o esperado de um conto da Gillian Flynn

The Grownup é uma história curtinha sobre uma mulher com dois trabalhos extremamente excêntricos e uma casa assombrada.

Eu amo a escrita da autora, então foi um ponto alto, principalmente em relação aos monólogos internos da protagonista. Acho que cumpriu o papel de ser um livro rápido mas perturbador, porém os plot twists foram um pouco mirabolantes demais para mim. Se você já é fã da Gillian Flynn, vale a leitura, e recomendo principalmente o audiobook.