Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a two-sided story depicting a marriage---and a disappearance---from the husband, Nick's point of view, and the wife, Amy. When Amy goes missing amidst the debris of what looks like a terrible struggle, Nick becomes the prime suspect while still proclaiming his innocence.
As the police investigate and Nick does some digging of his own, the reader is welcomed into the mind of missing wife, Amy, and gets an idea of what the marriage is really like via her diary.
But not everything is as it seems. Neither Nick nor Amy has been entirely forthcoming. As their deep dark secrets come to light and the real truth unfolds, Flynn takes the reader on a roller coaster ride, keeping us on our toes as we try to find out who did it. And why.
Personally, I really liked this book. Which was actually a surprise to me because it's probably not something I would pick up off the shelves on my own. This is why bookclubs are amazing tools for making you read outside of your comfort zone. So, Gone Girl was a pleasant surprise and aside from the ending (which accounts for the slightly lower rating), I wasn't disappointed at all.
The characters were all well developed, illuminating how a person can change throughout a relationship, that people's views on who a person truly is are not always accurate and that everyone has secrets. you will be guessing "what next?" until the very end.
Without giving too much away, I would like to commend Flynn for creating a character (I won't say which) that is so patient and diabolical, so conniving and utterly brilliant that I was in awe of the workings of their mind (even if I was a bit appalled) until the very last word.
My rating: 8 out of 10.
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