Dark Rooms Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

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Original Title:	Dark Rooms
ISBN:	0062345869 (ISBN13: 9780062345868)
Edition Language:	English

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

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Ratings: 3.1 From 4111 Users | 330 Reviews

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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

Murder, drug addiction, rape, sex, illicit affairs, secrets and lies, messed up family dynamics. Really too much going on here for my taste. Too many twists, turns, and red herrings made this into a story that was so busy that it detracted from the overall effect. I would have given only two stars but there was something really original in here that deserves the extra star. (view spoiler)[The mother and her own especial artwork, endlessly photographing her daughter, Nica. The background story of

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars I hauled my body along, through the trees, over the fence, toward what I knewknew because it was there, all of it, in that piercing mechanical wail, knew because it was prophesied in my dream, as elusive as a scent, a shadow, a ghost, knew because it was written in the very blood flowing through my veinswould be as bad as it gets. Grace and Nica both attend Chandler Academy, a private boarding school in Hartford, Connecticut where their parents are also teachers. Grace



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,

Oh, Dark Rooms. I wanted to love you. The synopsis sounds just up my alley and I heard Marisha Pessl comparisons-Pessl being my favorite author. But while I compulsively tore through this novel, and it succeeds as a thriller insofar as it makes you anxious to discover the ending, it is a deeply flawed novel. Like holy-moly, do I have issues with it.First of all, there is no reason based on the text for Lili Anolik's debut novel to be titled Dark Rooms. Literally nothing of import happens in a

As the ending of Dark Rooms drew near, I could almost hear the voice of George Benson, but with the lyrics just a wee bit altered:Let me haunt you one more timeHold me closer, now you're mineLady, haunt me one last timeLady, haunt meHo, haunt me, lady.Indeed Nica Baker is the most haunting schoolgirl character Ive encountered since Megan Abbotts Beth Cassidy, but while it takes us a while to find out that Beth is ill-fated, Nica is dead, suddenly & violently, @ the very beginning of this