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The GROWNUP by Gillian Flynn

The GrownUp by Gillian Flynn


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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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The Grown Up
Author : Gillian Flynn
Published : November 2015
Language : English 
Genre : Thriller, Fiction 

Gillian Flynn's  bigger fonts (than the tittle) at the cover seems legit like trying to shout this is another thriller from the best-current-thriller author, Mrs. Flynn. So please, don't mind the 69 pages inside because the Author guarantees there will be a twist inside!

The Grownup is a story about unnamed woman whom experienced messed-up childhood and try to make a living by doing a hand job-er. Not a prostitute, just a mere hand job-er. The Woman knows exactly her customers segmentations. Not a upper class, a man with job but may be not have quite a power. She knew also that she is not allowed to be too seductive, just sexy. 

The job gve her okay but after three years, she shall stop. Her hand is throbbing badly so she changed her line of work (still in service business-same building). She started to work as Aura-reader just because she gifted with the ability to read people's psychology. 

One day-a very different with her usual type of customer, a woman came, Susan Burke. She knew right on time that Susan having a trouble in house, but she doesn't know what will coming to that Woman life. A haunted house, troubled kid and her most favorite thing in the world-books and books.

I assure you, even it is merely 69 pages, there is really a twist! At the beginning, the woman narrated brillianly, her uncanny, cynicalism, and inside joke, very promising. And the best part of course the ending that I didn't see it coming. 

For 20 minutes read, it is very Flynn writing. I don't know what to called it, novella or short story, but The Grown Up reminds me why I love Gone Girl at the first place.

I think that's all, I don't want this review is longer than the book itself. 

I enjoy the read. 
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