'What are you thinking, Amy? The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?' Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately 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 aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife? And what was left in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel, marriage truly is the art of war...
My family has gone away for Christmas every year since I was little, and each year there seems to be one book that is floating around the airport. Last year while waiting for connections everyone was reading Stephen King's 11/22/63 (including myself) this year, it was Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. Gone Girl seemed to appear on every top ten best books of 2012 list ever created. I loved her debut, Sharp Objects therefore I had to read this one, and became one of the lemmings floating around the airport.
On their fifth anniversary, the year of wood, Nick Dunne comes home to discover his wife Amy is gone. It is immediately investigated as murder with Nick as their prime suspect. Who would want to hurt Amy? She seemed so perfect and was the inspiration for the popular Amazing Amy children's book; well Amazing Amy soon becomes Awful Amy, her true colors turn during the nationwide search, but her true bitchiness is only exposed to Nick...
I kind of guessed what had become of Amy but it was the way Gillian Flynn laid out her treasure hunt that still had me thinking "no fucking way." Amy is a sociopath, using her Amazing Amy persona to her advantage. Elmo, didn't exactly act the way he was portrayed on Sesame Street so why should Amazing Amy?
Gone Girl is fantastic, the writing is superb, the pacing perfect, Gillian Flynn constantly adding another piece to the puzzle. This thriller is excellent from beginning to end, leaving me with a chill down my spine.
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