'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...
This book is the entire reason i avoid reading the books others are reading on trains, because it turns out most of the world are idiots. Gone Girl was an interesting read, but an ultimate portrayal of weak-willed destruction which served mostly to annoy by the end. Not a terrible book, but also certainly not worth the praise that's been heaped on it. It's hard to really enjoy a novel where literally every character is unlikeable. The author placed so many plot hints in which could have led the narrative another, more clever way, but I really felt that she just gave up and couldn't be bothered developing the plot by the end. A sad disappointment for a book with such narrative potential.
