'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...
Gone Girl is a complicated book. It's rough and twisty and entertaining and intricate. A physiological thriller. It's a book I loved to hate.
I found the characters of Nick and Amy to be so unlikeable, I spent the first half of the novel wondering what people saw in this book. It didn't so much suck me in... more it dangled another carrot as soon as I started to lose interest. About halfway though the book, I felt committed enough to want to see how it all worked out in the end. The end itself threw me. Not what I was expecting.
The book itself is brilliant. It's gritty and manipulative and infinitely complex. It's not something I'd normally read but I'm glad I did. Sensitive readers beware though. This book is dark with a capital D.
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