Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

 The SSR book that I read for the second quarter of this year was Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. The character that I am going to write about is the main character of the book, Libby Day, although I do not think that I share any connection with her because she went through a lot as a kid which shaped her into the way she is at the beginning of the book. Libby had a troubled childhood being one of the two survivors of a shooting that only left her brother and herself alive. That happened when she was younger and ever since then she has not worked for anything as she depends on the pitty of others since they've been sending her money. She is really depressed during the beginning of the book but as the book continues, she becomes more normal and aware of what is happening and what she needs to do. She is a dynamic character because she changes throughout the book from being depressed at first and depending on everyone to being like more independent and investigative as she is trying to find out who the real culprits of her family's murder are. Libby being a dynamic character really helped the story because nobody wants to read a book where the character is depressed throughout the whole book so having her change made it easier to read. I can’t really connect with this character because I don’t really think I have had any traumatic experiences that have made me get depressed or anything of that sort. At the start of the book, Libby did not even want to know anything about her brother since he was in jail for supposedly killing her whole family, you were able to tell that she hated him as she still had not visited him even after all those years that had passed; however, at the end of the book she wants to build on her relationship with her brother Ben to make up for all the years they lost due to him serving time in jail for something he didn't do.