Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
My rating:[rating=5]
(See this review on Goodreads.)
This book and the associated movie had been talked about so much that I decided I really wanted to read it before I saw the movie. I tried as much as I could to avoid finding out anything about the twist ending. If you have managed to avoid it I wouldn’t continue reading. I don’t think I can write a review about this book and not talk about the twist. I would highly recommend reading the book. I have not seen the movie so I don’t know how much was changed but the book is always better.
***** SPOILERS AHEAD *****
I knew, going into this book, that Nick hadn’t actually killed his wife and, in fact, his wife is the one that tried to make it look like he did. What I didn’t expect was how twisted and psychotic Amy really was. The diary entries you read from Amy’s “perspective” successfully create this persona that make you believe (just as the police believe) that Amy really is an innocent, doting wife. It’s a brilliant writing mechanic on Flynn’s part. She successfully endeared me to Amy for the first 300 pages. I was even thinking that I had heard wrong and that she actually was abducted and/or murdered.
Then you read the first chapter in the second part of the book and you are just stunned. She is well deserving of the “Psycho Bitch” moniker Nick gives her later in the book. As I read the last 150 pages I kept wondering how this was going to end. I was not expecting this book to be one of those where the villain wins. In fact I wonder if Gillian Flynn has plans to write a sequel because the book ends with that as a possibility. I would definitely be in line to read it.