If you’ve ever been fascinated by dysfunctional relationships, you’ll love this book. Gone Girl dials it up to 11.
Title: Gone Girl
Author: Gillian Flynn
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Psychological
Publication Date: May 24, 2012
Review Date: August 2, 2017 // Mar 16, 2026
Number of Pages: 415 (paperback)
My Rating: 4.0/5
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Book Blurb of Gone Girl:
Who are you?
What have we done to each other?
These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy’s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn’t true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren’t made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.
So what did happen to Nick’s beautiful wife?
Book Review of Gone Girl:
This is the second time I’ve read this book, and I absolutely loved it just as much as when I read it the first time.
The difference was that I knew the ending and the plot twists, so I was able to pick up a lot of nuances that I was unaware of the first time.
I have NOT seen the movie, and I love the book so much that I don’t even want to. Sometimes it so happens that I really like a book and I’ve completely visualized and created a universe in my head. And the movie might create a jarring image, which displaces mine. Which I do not want. But I digress.
**spoiler alert**
Anyway, coming back to the book, I do enjoy the nuance and structure. At the risk of a spoiler (is there still anyone who doesn’t know the story of Gone Girl?), it is chilling and fascinating how disturbed her mind is.
Her planning skills are a work of art, and the diary, her masterpiece.
But for all her talents, she is very sheltered. And that is one thing she did not account for. If she had been a little less sheltered and a little more street smart, the story may have ended very differently.
As it is, she ends up manipulating once again when she is on surer ground in known territory. She makes an attempt to cover up her own gaps in the story, and though not entirely successful, it works out tolerably well.
**spoiler ends**
If you’ve ever been fascinated by dysfunctional relationships, you’d love this book. Gone Girl dials it up to an 11.
Also, Amy is definitely crazy. So I’m sure that is going to appeal to a large demographic as well. I guess it’s because this story hits the sweet spot of believability between ‘That didn’t actually happen, right?’ and ‘Jeez, truth IS stranger than fiction.’
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