Dark Rooms: A Novel, by Lili Anolik
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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.
Dark Rooms: A Novel, by Lili Anolik- Amazon Sales Rank: #328143 in Books
- Brand: Anolik, Lili
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.09" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
Review “Fascinating, disturbing, mysterious, and at times, downright creepy--Lili Anolik’s wonderfully twisted debut novel will intoxicate readers!” (John Searles, bestselling author of Help for the Haunted and Strange but True)“As much as this is a crime drama, it’s also a coming-of-age novel. The plot is high-suspense, but it’s the strength of the characters—and the strength of Anolik’s hypnotic, unfussy prose—that gives the book its lasting force. Wholly absorbing and emotionally rich...Deeply satisfying.” (Kirkus Reviews)“Insightful [and] complex ...Anolik’s haunting debut is tough to put down and will stay with you for a long time. The author’s characters and tone recall Donna Tartt’s The Secret History or Kimberly Pauley’s Ask Me.” (Library Journal (starred review))“Great story, great twists, great insights -- a brilliant start to a novelist’s career.” (Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Burning Room)“One hell of a first novel. Dark Rooms is an elegant work of crime fiction with a plot as well-drawn as the characters who inhabit it. It’s a fine murder mystery as well as an exploration of loss and identity...Think Megan Abbott meets Twin Peaks.” (Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Look Back)“Suspenseful, sad and, shattering...Whether or not you believe in ghosts, Anolik’s debut will haunt you.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))“A Twin Peaks-twisted murder mystery.” (Elle)
From the Back Cover
“Dark Rooms warrants an urgency that I haven’t experienced since reading Nancy Drew in elementary school. It had me pining for more explanations, more dialogue, more, more, more, in a way that I don’t tend to experience often as an adult. . . . Simply put, Anolik brilliantly strings us along—which is what makes her first novel so rewarding to read, and so upsetting to finish.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and fast—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. Dropped out of college and living at home, working at the moneyed and progressive private high school from which she recently graduated, Grace becomes increasingly obsessed with identifying the real killer.
“The most exciting new writer I’ve come across in a long time, Lili Anolik gives us one hell of a first novel. Dark Rooms is an elegant work of crime fiction with a plot as well drawn as the characters who inhabit it. It’s a fine murder mystery as well as an exploration of loss and identity—and how through one, we sometimes grope our way to the other. . . . Think Megan Abbott meets Twin Peaks.” —Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of Don’t Look Back
“Suspenseful, sad and, shattering. . . . Whether or not you believe in ghosts, Anolik’s debut will haunt you.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The opening sentence hooks.”—Bret Easton Ellis
“Insightful [and] complex. . . . Anolik’s haunting debut is tough to put down and will stay with you for a long time. The author’s characters and tone recall Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.”—Library Journal (starred review)
About the Author
Lili Anolik is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Her work has also appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, Elle, and The Believer. She lives in New York City with her husband and two young sons.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Murder Mystery Thriller + Somber Tales in Suburbia By Miss Bonnie My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars‘I hauled my body along, through the trees, over the fence, toward what I knew–knew 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 veins—would 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 was always the quiet sister the resided within the shadow of her younger and wilder sister Nica until a bullet took her life and left Grace suddenly alone. She is troubled by not only her absence, the realization on how much she relied upon her sister but also a sense of bewilderment about who she is supposed to be without her. Grace develops a pill habit that quickly spirals out of control causing her to drop out of college and remain at home. After Nica’s death is pinned on a student who recently committed suicide, Grace doesn’t believe it to be true. After she finds evidence that he couldn’t possibly have killed her she determines it’s up to her to find out who really did.Dark Rooms is a debut novel and while it had some pacing issues and the occasional hiccup, it was quite the engrossing tale. As far as the previously mentioned hiccups, the investigation itself which spans the majority of the novel felt generally ‘off’. When Grace would discover a clue she would either connect the dots in a way that left me completely confounded or would often jump to the strangest and most outlandish conclusions. The one saving grace is that the main character recognized exactly what she was doing:‘I’ve been pretending I know, careening from conviction to conviction like a human pinball, setting off every light and spark and bell, absolutely positive about one thing, then absolutely positive about another. But, the truth is, the only thing I’m absolutely positive about is that I don’t know anything at all.’It put a new spin on her outlandish conclusions: she was desperate and grasping at straws to find the answers to her sisters death that was plaguing her with uneasiness. There was also another (spoilery) reason for her desperation to complete the investigation and when you took a step back and really looked at what she was going through it ended up making at least a modicum of sense in the madness. The secrets and reasoning behind Nica’s death were dark enough to live up to the title but the additions regarding Nica being her mothers muse in her photography and the lines that were constantly being crossed with her practically stalking her to take candid photos felt a bit gratuitous in the end. This story was a complete knockout as far as the writing is concerned and is definitely worth a read for that alone.Dark Rooms is a mixture of somber tales in suburbia, a murder/mystery thriller and a coming of age novel. Comparisons to The Secret History, Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects and even Megan Abbott are what initially intrigued me about this novel. The similarities to Sharp Objects is fairly accurate with the story of the seemingly normal teenage girls and the dark family secrets that inevitably change their very makeup but didn’t completely live up to that comparison. All in all, big name comparisons generally always do the book a disservice and while Dark Rooms isn’t a perfect clone, fans of those novels will definitely find some thrill within these pages as I certainly did.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Unlikable Characters, Disappointing Story/Writing By LadyJingly ***SPOILERS*** While this book has an incredible beginning, it immediately begins to disappoint in the pages following the opener. There are a lot of tortured and overlong twists and turns with laughably tidy (yet unsatisfying) resolutions; there are a lot of vomiting scenes (like, a lot); a lot of the main character telling us "I'm tired" in various phrasing; and a lot of frustrating character decisions. I feel like this was a novel that wanted to include a lot of edgy subjects--drugs, sex, rape, incest, murder---while being fairly tame. Which is pretty lame of a novel to do.The plot kept me guessing, but the ending was ultimately disappointing. I also found most of the characters profoundly unlikable and uninteresting, especially Grace. Grace came off in turns as whiny, apathetic, cold, snotty, and self-loathing. I don't understand why I'm supposed to care about her, other than the fact her sister died. And her choice of partner at the end is just...gross. Sorry. Seriously, Lili Anolik? I'm supposed to be sympathizing with the guy who is not only a rapist, but a rapist imagining the victim's dead sister??? Mmmmkay. Sorry, there's only so much a rapist can use the old, "But I was soooo saaaaaddddd" excuse before it gets ridiculous.And Nica, the dead sister, isn't exactly sympathetic, either. Most of the characters are written to be shallow, rich, snotty, privileged kids trying to move around in a Bret Easton Ellis novel from 1985 and failing hard. I love how we are supposed to "sympathize" with Grace and Nica somehow because they are slightly lower high-class than the aristocratic high-class students they're friends with. And apparently Damon, who seems to be a regular, middle-class person is framed as being from "the wrong side of the tracks." He lives in a two-story house with his grandmother, graduated from an expensive boarding school, and is on a baseball scholarship to University of Connecticut. Am I supposed to believe that just because he's Latino he's some kind of exotic bad-boy?Anyway, I read it to the end, but mostly because I just wanted to get it over with. I was really disappointed, as I heard great things and the opening chapter is amazing. I kept waiting for the writing to return to that level, but it never did.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Compulsively readable mystery By Peter Bloch I read this book almost at one sitting. It's beautifully written with compelling characters and a perfectly twisted storyline that is guaranteed to keep readers engrossed. It's a debut novel that reads like the work of a master.
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