Martha G
Written on Feb 6, 2017
A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke.
Susan moved to the city one year ago with her husband and 15-year-old stepson Miles. They live in a Victorian house called Carterhook Manor. Susan has become convinced that some malevolent spirit is inhabiting their home. The young woman doesn't believe in exorcism or the supernatural. However when she enters the house for the first time, she begins to feel it too, as if the very house is watching her, waiting, biding its time . . .
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.
- ISBN10 1474603041
- ISBN13 9781474603041
- Publish Date 5 November 2015 (first published 3 November 2015)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 96
- Language English
Reviews
Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews
Written on Aug 26, 2016
The first sentence in The Grownups by Gillian Flynn includes the words "hand job". I wasn't sure how I felt about that. What direction will the story take? To be frank, it was a turn-off.
Impressions While Reading
The Grownups was odd, to say the least. An unnamed psychic who knows how to show a guy a good time is called upon to cleanse a house. The eerie nature of the home and its residence was reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. The characters were creepy, giving the impression that something was not right and far from feng shui. As for the house, it creaked and gave off a sense of being haunted. If walls could talk I'd like to know what these have to say.
Final Impressions
The Grownups by Gillian Flynn was an old-fashioned ghost story. The ending left chills and thought that this story was just beginning. It reminded me of the ghost story about "The Hook". A rattling noise on a car door was not in the driver's imagination after all. It was psychological and kept this listener's attention with eyes wide open.
readingwithwrin
Written on Feb 5, 2016
I've never been a big fan of Gillian Flynn and wasn't expecting much from this book. Which I am glad I didn't.
We start with an unnamed female who gives hand-jobs for a living until she has to stop due to injury and has to become a "psychic". What really happens is that this unnamed women has been raised to be a con-artist by her mom, until unnamed women dropped out of high school and leaves to start conning on her own.
Once this women, becomes a "psychic" one of her clients needs her "help" due to her step-son being very mean and malicious to her and her son. As this unnamed women start's helping this client she realizes that something really is going on and that this women need's help from someone besides her or does she..This client's whole family is so messed up, and so is this unnamed women who in the end just goes along with what's happening and lets it start becoming her new con.
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