'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...
Amy and Nick have one of the most complicated relationships I have ever encountered in print. Their tale begins textbook procedural but takes a turn for something so different. I throughly enjoyed this book and hope the film adaptation does it justice.
The pacing of this book is such that I could not wait to read the next part. I would fight to keep my eyes open just to find out what happened next. The characters were very well developed and intriguing, they kept me riveted.
If I had to sum up this story in a short phrase, I would say twisted love story.
