Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

Title: Gone Girl
Author: Gillian Flynn
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 466 pages
Date read: August, 2015

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media--as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents--the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter--but is he really a killer?

As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn't do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?


I hardly know where to start and what to say without getting into spoilers. This was one amazing train-wreck of a book about two extraordinarily dysfunctional people.

The weird thing is that when I first picked up this book (about a year ago), I only read about 20 pages into it before putting it aside - I just couldn't get into it at all. I have no clue why not, because when I picked it up again this time around, I couldn't put it down! And ended up reading it in just a few sittings.

As I think everybody knows by now, this book is full of twists and turns, and in the beginning I found my sympathies going back and forth between Nick and Amy. They were fairly firmly stuck at about the half-way point though, and didn't waver again. I had NO clue how Gillian Flynn would resolve all complications in the end though, and at about 20 pages before the end remember thinking, "There's no way this will have a satisfactory ending!" And it didn't... but thinking back on it, I think it had the only ending it could have.

Absolutely mind-blowing book and a very chilling read.