'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...
Finally got around to reading Gone Girl. I mostly loved it, up until I turned the last page and realised it was the last page. I thought I had a chapter or two missing, and could hardly believe the book ended the way it did. I was just disappointed and even after mulling it over and talking about it on Twitter (where author Claire Allan made some good points) I still expected a better ending. A book like this deserved a better ending.
But, I loved it up until that point. It was disturbingly gripping and I was never quite sure whose narrative I was meant to believe, or who to feel sorry for. I can't wait to go see the film now!
